Russian Language Lessons for Beginners | Learn Russian Names #1-Middle Names Video Lecture | Russian Language Made Easy (Advanced Level): For Beginners

hello and welcome to Viki Russian lesson
- owatta Natalia my name is Natalia
trusteth today we'll talk about Russian
middle names those funny sounding Pietra
meanings and they're called patronymics
because they're derived from father's
name to do that we use suffixes for
example the gift or which means
segi the son put his father's name was
Butte and patronymic is derived with the
help of psychics old pietrovicz after
watching today's lesson you'll be able
to pronounce virtual minutes of some of
our most famous authors if Nikolayevich
Tolstoy alexander sergeyevich pushkin
and further Mikhailovich the styrsky
and for female patronymics we'll look at
you our famous poets anna andreevna
madhava and marina even omelettes retire
once you know how to pronounce this
patronymics and how they're formed and
their form is the help of only two
suffixes - from male and - for female
then you will be able to pronounce all
Russian patronymics because the second
half of them is the same so let's take a
look at them and see how easy we can
make it for you
Russian middle names are called
patronymics or chest WA or chest ba
patronymic at sea it is further in
Russian but yet
alexander sergeyevich pushkin Sergei
which means son of Sergei his father's
name was Sergei and the patronymic is
derived from this name with the help of
suffix Jarek leav Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Nikolayevich can you tell what his
father name was nikolai and nikolaivich
again is derived from named Nikolai is
suffix years further Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky the son of Mihiel and
Mihailovich is derived from a high heel
with suffix avec Mihailovich you already
have an idea how / - mimics are derived
and here's the rules suffix which is
used for names engine and consonant
yvonne ivanovitch aleksandr
aleksandrovich vladimir vladimirovich as
you see the suffix is just added to the
end of the name without any changes
suffix the image is used for names in
denim yet in the mists case we drop the
final year so Nikolay becomes
Nikolayevich Sergei Sergei vich Alexei
Alexeevich these veteran mimics look
long and difficult to pronounce but if
you practice pronounce in these two
suffixes you already know how to
pronounce half of the patronymic as you
know there are always exceptions in
languages
so there is an exception when male name
ends in a vowel those are very rare very
few in Russian for example Enya yeah
in this case the patronymic is formed
with suffix each pyotr ilyich
tchaikovsky female patronymics anna
andreevna Akhmatova on the daughter of
andrey her patronymic is formed from the
name Andrey the name ends in here so we
drop you and aired suffix Jana Jana
andreyevna marina Ivanov knots vltava
the daughter of Yvonne Yvonne of nur the
name Yvonne and we aired suffix of Na
Ivanovna here's the role of Foreman
female patronymics suffix of na is l2
names ending in consonant Yvonne Yvonne
of Na Alexander Alexandrovna Vladimir
Vladimir now when the name ends in Y
which is semi vowel we drop the final
year and air suffix Jana Nicholai
Nicholai eveness Sergei Sergei Evenor
Alexei Alexei
how do we formally address the person to
address a person formally we use their
first and middle names first name and
patronymic if you were so fortunate as
to meet live Michael Levitas toy they
would say trust with self Nikolayevich
the stay of ski would introduce himself
Minnie aza would further Mihailovich we
would address on Akhmatova ears anna
andreevna marinids vltava is marina
Ivanova this is all on Russian names as
you see Russians have only one given
name the middle name patronymic is
derived from father's name the easiest
way to pronounce patronymics is to learn
how to pronounce those few suffixes used
to derive them from father's name hope
this was helpful the svidaniya