Russian Language Lessons for Beginners | Learn Russian Names #2 - First Names Video Lecture | Russian Language Made Easy (Advanced Level): For Beginners

hello and welcome to the icky Russian
lessons
my name is not I mean as about Natalia
is dressed with today we'll talk about
Russian names this is the second lesson
in the series we already talked about
Russian middle names patronymics and
today we'll talk about first names given
names if you hear any Russian friends
you know that Russian names have a lot
of agents the same name could change
almost to the point where you don't
recognize it
for example Nikolay the Russian
equivalent of Nicolas it could be
Nikolai Kolya Cuenca questio Kalusha
Kalyan and many others the possibilities
are almost endless so let's take a look
what do we do how do we change the names
what suffixes we use and why would we
want to do that
first name Emma Emma our greatest poet
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin his name
Emma is Alexander in a short form is
Sasha Sasha woman would be called
Alexandra and her short name would also
be Sasha puter in each Tchaikovsky his
full name is Piotr and shortening pizza
note that the full form of masculine
names and in a consonant but their short
form almost always ends in vowel Anna
Andreevna
Akhmatova Russian poet first name is
Anna and a short version of her name is
Anya same phone name can have multiple
short forms for example Anna
he has another form of short name Anita
Anita as you see short forms are derived
from truncated stems of full forms and
the most common form of short name ends
in a yeah for both men and women these
short forms are informal and they're
only used by people who know each other
well who are well acquainted we don't
address strangers by their short names
I will read some common names for men
and women first the full form and then
the short form Vlad Zimmer Volodya
Yvonne Vanya Nikolay qualia Alex see a
Lucia Sergey Siri OSHA in women's names
Maria Masha
Ileana Lena
he quits Irina Katya
Natalia Natasha
that's Yana Tanya Russian names he have
almost endless diminutive forms which
are derived from name with help of
suffixes the most common suffixes are
yin and yang Yang and edge some examples
Sasha could be sashenka or Sasha chica
Katya becomes katenka katenka or Katusha
diminutive forms are emotional they
convey warm and tender feelings and are
used by relatives and close friends
especially by parents of small children
now to review let's look again at all
forms of Russian names first of all
there is the formal full name for
example Alexander or Alexandra
then we have short forms of name which
are neutral but are used only by people
who know each other well by well
acquainted people and then there are
diminutive forms which are emotional and
are used only by people who are very
close to each other relatives or good
friends in this case Sasha is the short
form of name and Sasha and Sasha chica
are diminutive forms this is all for
today in the next lesson we'll talk
about Russian surnames family names I'll
see you soon the svidaniya
you