Basic Russian Vocabulary that might be useful while traveling to Russia. Russian language without a doubt is one of the hardest languages to learn and to speak. Even native speakers can support this claim. It is one of the most common languages of the world - the sixth among all the languages of the world in terms of the total number of speakers and the eighth in the number of people who speak it as a mother tongue. Russian is also the most common Slavic language and the most common language in Europe - geographically and by the number of native speakers. Russian is the state language of the Russian Federation, one of the two state languages of Belarus, one of the official languages of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and some other countries, the main language of international communication in Central Eurasia, Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, one of the six working languages UN, UNESCO and other international organizations. The number of people who speak Russian is 137.5 million people (2010). In total in the world about 260 million people speak Russian.
Russian remains widely spoken in all 15 former Soviet Republics despite various bans and change of government policy. Many political bloggers, writers, journalists and etc use Russian as a means of communications across former USSR even if they are not technically Russian. It is simple a language that can target highest number of people in this region.
Google Translate made any vocabulary obsolete. Al you have to do is go to Google Translate, tap voice to text option (microphone icon), choose Russian as a language that you want to translate it to and then hit sound button. Any text will be read aloud in Russian.
| Russian | English | |
| Доброе утро | Dobroe utro | Good morning |
| Добрый день | Dobry den' | Good day |
| Добрый вечер | Dobry vecher | Good evening |
| Доброй ночи | Doh-broy Noh-tchi | Good Night |
| До свидания | Do svee-dah-nya | Good bye |
| Здравствуйте/ Привет | Zdravstvujte/ Privet | Hello |
| Как твое здоровье? | Kak tvoyo zdorovie? | How's your health? |
| Как дела? | Kak dela? | How are you? |
| Ву говорите по- английски? | Vi govorite po angliyski? | Do you speak English? |
| У меня все хорошо | U menya vsyo khorosho. | I am fine. |
| Поздравляю | Pozdrav-lya-yu | Congratulations |
| Извини/ Извините | Izvini inform (Izvinite formal) | Excuse me |
| Спасибо | Spasibo | Thank you |
| С нетерпением жду ответа | S neterpeniem zhdu otveta. | I can't wait for your answer. |
| Russia | English | |
| Вчера | Vchera | Yesterday |
| Сегодня | Sevodnya | Today |
| Russian | English | |
| Один | Odin | One |
| Два | Dva | Two |
| Три | Tri | Three |
| Четыре | Che-ti-ri | Four |
| Пять | Pyat' | Five |
| Шесть | Schest' | Six |
| Семь | Sem' | Seven |
| Восемь | Vosem' | Eight |
| Девять | Devyat' | Nine |
| Десять | Desyat' | Ten |
| Одинадцать | Odin- na- dcat' | Eleven |
| Двенадцать | Dve- na- dcat' | Twelfth |
| Двадцать | Dva- dcat' | Twenty |
| Тридцать | Tri- na- dcat' | Thirty |
Toilets
М (abbreviation of «Мужчины») Male
Ж (abbreviation of «Женщины»)
Female
Russia is strictly two gender country