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Do (до) is basically “till” Svidaniye (Свидание) has several meanings: - most common modern single-word usage is for date as in “romantic date” - archaic is
by piskov 5y ago
Do (до) is basically “till”
Svidaniye (Свидание) has several meanings:
- most common modern single-word usage is for date as in “romantic date”
- archaic is for “meeting” that remained in this goodbye form.
So “do svidaniya” is literally for “till we meet again” :-)
- Tade0 5y agoI wonder why is it romanized to "do", when it's read as "da"?
- tgv 5y agoEnglish. The answer is almost always English, and its "quirky" way of transliteration.
- pezezin 5y agoI don't think so. From what little Russian I know, the original is до свидания, with an O, but in most dialects an unstressed O is pronounced A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_phonology#Unstressed_vowels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_phonology#Unstressed_v...
- ACS_Solver 5y agoIt's even more convoluted than that. Due to vowel reduction, unstressed o is pronounced as a, but до is one syllable so the o is stressed. When pronouncing до separately, it would definitely be pronounced as do, but до свидания is always said quickly as if it was one word, so the до turns into an unstressed syllable. As a side note, Russian pronunciation is remarkably uniform compared to languages like English. Dialects do exist but in practice the vast majority of speakers will pronounce things very similarly. The phonetics are also so different from English than the typical English speaker will not pronounce any Russian words close to native pronunciation.
- CRConrad 5y ago> As a side note, Russian pronunciation is remarkably uniform compared to languages like English. AFAICT, that goes for absolutely every other language too. Nothing even comes close to English for inconsistency in pronounciation (and even more so, spelling).
- pezezin 5y agoInteresting, thank you. Years ago I tried to learn Russian by myself, but it was quite difficult and I was too busy with other stuff. I hope one day I can learn it.
- amaccuish 5y agoBecause it's spelt "do" in Russian. It's only due to stress and the fact it's a preposition that the way it is said becomes "da". As the preposition is so small, it's considered together with the following word, which in the genitive has its stress on the "а".