Slavic Languages - Vocabulary Translation to English Quiz
Several languages from the three major Slavic branches (South, West, East) have been chosen to demonstrate how certain words are said there. Can you guess the words based on the translations?
- the international word "robot" comes from the word "rabota" (to labour)
- Soviet Union = Советский Союз (sovyetkij sayuz), for other purposes the languages tend to use some variation of the word "union", such as the Polish "Unia Europejska" for "European Union"
- "yug" ("south") gave name to "Yugoslavia" (South Slavic land)
- the word for "white" may be familiar e.g. from "Belgrade" ("Београд" - "Beograd") "White City" or from "Belarus" which translates to "White Rus"
- the Great Famine of Ukraine (1932-33) is known as "Holodomor" ("Голодомо́р") which simply translates to "famine"
- the international word "robot" comes from the word "rabota" (to labour)
- Soviet Union = Советский Союз (sovyetkij sayuz), for other purposes the languages tend to use some variation of the word "union", such as the Polish "Unia Europejska" for "European Union"
- "yug" ("south") gave name to "Yugoslavia" (South Slavic land)
- the word for "white" may be familiar e.g. from "Belgrade" ("Београд" - "Beograd") "White City" or from "Belarus" which translates to "White Rus"
- the Great Famine of Ukraine (1932-33) is known as "Holodomor" ("Голодомо́р") which simply translates to "famine"