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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6232 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 4 08 October 2010 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
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Is that pronounced different from a regular и?
I don't know the name of the accent, it starts lower left and goes diagonally to upper right. Or is it just for showing which syllable gets the accent or something? For example, look at the name written in Russian on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Kabayeva Edited by IronFist on 08 October 2010 at 3:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6241 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 2 of 4 08 October 2010 at 3:24am | IP Logged |
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Those are just accent marks, showing where the stress falls in each word. Note that it's also over one letter in the rest of her name as well. Some Russian materials written for learners use this accent; others will put the stressed vowel in bold. As far as I know, in native materials, you'll never see stress marks like this. Edited by josht on 08 October 2010 at 4:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6232 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 4 08 October 2010 at 9:36am | IP Logged |
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Ohhh, that makes sense. Thanks!
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| vykis92 Groupie LithuaniaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5110 days ago 68 posts - 71 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 09 October 2010 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
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If you are talking about "Й" you must know that it's called "и краткая" (short i), so it is separate letter in russian alphabet which is pronouced like y in boy.
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