Russian Language Lessons for Beginners ♥ RUSSIAN NAMES - 3 COMMON MISTAKES Video Lecture | Russian Language Made Easy (Advanced Level): For Beginners

hello and welcome to weekly Russian
today we'll talk about formal and
informal Russian names in the three
mistakes that you should avoid the first
mistake is not recognizing all the
versions of the same name the difficulty
is that derivative forms of the name
sometimes don't resemble the original
form let's take a look at short names
first most Russian names have short
forms that end in our oh yeah
Alexander becomes Sasha me hey Misha
Maria
Masha in some names he have multiple
short forms for example Natalia can be
Natasha Natta
or Tasha besides short forms Russian
names have diminutive forms we can add
the minute of suffixes to both full name
and short name two commonly used
suffixes are ink and yet can you still
recognize Alexander in its diminutive
forms
sashenka or Sasha chica these diminutive
names are forms of endearment as you see
Russian given names have three forms
full short and diminutive
Russian middle names present another
challenge we use formal first name and
middle name to formally address a person
Russian middle names are called
patronymics and they're formed with only
two suffixes for male and two suffixes
for female form so to formally address a
person we would say for example
Alexander Petrovich or Natalya Petrovna
the third mistake commonly made is
confusion middle names and last names
specifically pay attention to the
difference between last names and in an
off and yell and patronymics and in an
orbit and ye rich and if you have no
idea what I am talking about
please watch lesson on patronymics so
for example Petrof is the last name
Petrovic is patronymic a middle name and
petrova is a last name Petrovna is
patronymic mistakes are common even in
literature in the novel shadows in
Paradise Erich Maria Remarque he has a
character named Natasha Petrovna and
what's wrong with this name well in
Russian we never used a combination of
informal first name and patronymic which
is a very formal way to address person
so the correct name is formal
natalya petrovna informal Natasha
Petrova it may appear confusing at first
Russian patronymics and last names seem
very similar
but once you know the difference you
will easily be able to distinguish
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