Aside from referring to pancakes, the word blin (блин) is used in Russian as a linguistic signal in communications. It is used when a person talks to others and is searching for the right words or to express their dissatisfaction as a euphemism for "damn."
блин • (blin) (minced oath, colloquial, exclamation) dammit!, darn!, shoot! (
Bleen” is an inoffensive euphemistic substitute for “blyad”, meaning to express disappointment or frustration. It is like saying “darn” in English instead of “damn”.
Pancake (блин [blin] in Russian) is a euphemism for an obscenity блядь [blyad'].
An exclamation that can mean "watch this", "gotcha", "wow", "oops" and a myriad of other things.
In Russian, oy (ой) is often used as an expression of various degrees of surprise. In the Scandinavian languages, Oi! or the Swedish variant, Oj!, is commonly used as an exclamation of surprise, like "Oh" or "Whoops".
While you've probably already learned the more neutral terms like человек (human), девушка (girl), мужчина (man), and женщина (woman), Russian has so much more to offer when talking about other people. As you might expect, some of these terms can be quite complimentary.
The Russian equivalent for Cheers! is За здоровье! [za zda-ró-vye]. Literally it means: "To your health!".
They originated in Russia during the first half of the 1900s as a method to preserve meat. The meat is cured and smoked using the original methods and recipes which have been used for many years. The result is a delicious sausage, packed with flavourful spices, which we have come to know and love.
A Blini, sometimes referred to as a Bellini is a thin wheat-flour pancake commonly used as a Canapé, often served with Chicken or most commonly Smoked Salmon. Traditional blini use a yeast batter, which is left to rise, before being finished with milk or sometimes water.
In Russia, blat is a colloquial term to denote ways of getting things done through personal contacts, associated with using connections, pulling strings and exchanging favours.
Suffixes like -ochka- and -enka- are often referred to as the suffixes on the first level of pragmatics, where the suffix -enka- has a character of "dearly" and -ochka- has a diminutive character of "smallness" (Wierzbicka, 1997, p. 122). Suffix -sha- shows a sense of “gentleness”.
Mat describes a type of obscene language commonly used in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. Its lexicon consists of only a handful of words (though they have multiple variants), which are generally regarded as highly offensive.
Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, like the pronunciation of ⟨f⟩ in "fill, flee, or fall".
The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples, and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians.
Bratwurst (German: [ˈbʁaːtvʊʁst] ( listen)) is a type of German sausage made from pork or, less commonly, beef or veal. The name is derived from the Old High German Brätwurst, from brät-, finely chopped meat, and Wurst, sausage, although in modern German it is often associated with the verb braten, to pan fry or roast.
Russians are cooked, smoked sausages made of minced pork, beef and fat, embedded in a meat emulsion, flavoured with paprika and stuffed in pork casings.
Always show heightened respect to those who are older than you. It's common to adopt a more formal demeanour. Offer your seat to an elderly person, pregnant woman or woman with a small child if they do not have one. Men are expected to open doors for women, pay for their food, help them carry items, etc.