Russian word stress
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2017
- When speaking about good Russian pronunciation, people rarely think about proper stress. However, stress appears to be one of the most common problems not only for beginners but also for advanced Russian learners.
The first most common problem with this stress thing is that beginners often emphasize wrong syllables, which is usually fixed with practice and vocabulary expansion.
But proper stress is not only about where to put an accent mark but how to do it.
Usually, Russian learners emphasize the stressed syllable exactly the same as they would do it in their native language which, to tell the truth, sounds not exactly the same as Russian native speakers do things. And this causes an accent.
Also, when you start learning Russian grammar, you discover (with astonishment) that Russian stress is mobile. It can move in the same word when this word alters in different cases, conjugations, number, genders… which some people find pretty confusing.
Plus, when learning new words, you realize that stress sometimes influences meaning. There are words that are written exactly the same but have different stressed syllables and, therefore, have completely different meanings.
So, yes, Russian stress is very important and incredibly astounding!
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Thank you, Denis! Stressing is something I struggle with a lot. The video was very helpful.
You're so welcome!
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Уважаемый Денис Федоров,
Спасибо за этот интересный урок.
Талия. [Из Мельбурна, Австралия]
Thank you so much! I have been struggling with stressing words properly!
My pleasure!
Excellant explanation
5.
COGNATES
Cognates are words that came into Russian language from other languages.
Russian contains a lot of words that were adapted from other languages including English. And words borrowed from other languages, usually retained their stress. So when you use or see such word in Russian, which is originated in your language, you will know where to put an accent mark.
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STRESS AND MEANING
Some words are written exactly the same, but differ in stress. And they often mean entirely different things.
For example:
-Castle
За́мок
Zа́mak
-A lock
Замо́к
Zamо́k
These words are written exactly the same, but pronounced differently because of different stressed syllables.
-City population. [Genitive case]
Население го́рода.
Naseleniye górada
-Different cities.[Plural noun. Masc]
Разные города́.
Raznyye garadа́.
These examples involve Russian cases. Here the word “city” [ in genitive case]is written the same word in plural form, and the stressing is different.
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The stress rule always works, even if it doesn't work.
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Thanks! And greetings from Russia.
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English is pretty "free" too. -ough is pronounced any way you can imagine!
Of course this video is very useful Denis . In my case it is difficult for me to find in the long words the syllable to stress. And sometimes to know 3 more languages complicates this further because instinctively we tend to replicate the pronunciation which is more familiar to us. It is really a challenge to master your language.
With time, this skill comes to you. It's all about practice)
OTHER EXAMPLES OF THIS CATEGORY ARE:
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-Flour
Мука́
Muka
-Anguish
Му́ка
Mooka
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-I pay
Я плачу́
YA plachú
-I weep[cry]
Я пла́чу
YA pláchu
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-To soar[to rise]
Пари́ть
Parít'
-To steam
Па́рить
Párit'
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And that’s finally it. I hope this video was helpful. The most practical staff you will need in real life is at the beginning of this video. So thank you for watching and see you next time!
Thanks!
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@@DenisFedorov I’m so glad to know that you received it. Thank you for the lessons and your humor. You are so very funny.
Thanks for the kind words. I hope you will find my future videos entertaining too.
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Thank you it will help me so much
You're welcome
Nah.. I never thought my pronunciation was any good, but I do look forward to your help with this.
Next example:
-Orphan[sing. noun.masc]
Сирота́
Siratá
-Orphans[plural. Noun. Masc]
Сиро́ты
Siróty
In singular and plural we have different stress here.
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So, as you see a fixed usual stressing is for the weak. In Russian we do not like to do things the easy w ay. So Russian stress is for true workers like you-the chosen one. Therefore, in Russian stress can move or stay. And you will have to memorize stressing for all the words, where stress moves.
However, with practice your brain will be able to do that automatically.
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PREPOSITIONS
All the words of the Russian language, if you say them separately have a stressed syllable. But in fluent speech, stressed prepositions tend to merge with the subsequent words. It happens both in English and Russian. For example, you say: “Tome” instead of “to me”.
For example:
Come with me.
Пошли́ со́ мной.
Pashlí só mnoy.
In Russian we don’t say this “with me” separately, but merge them into:
[со́мной]. So, in fluent speech, prepositions tend to merge with the word they proceed. When two words merge they can have only o ne stressed syllable for two words. So:
Со́мной[somnoy] becomes сoмной[samnoy]
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Useful video, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
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HOW TO STRESS IN RUSSIAN?
1.
Pronounce the stressed vowel louder.
2.
Pronounce the stressed vowel longer.
Usually in Russian you need to make a stressed vowel about two times longer than unstressed vowel. So all other vowels in a word are short, but stressed vowels are about two times longer. But it is still shorter from an English speaker’s point of view. So you should decrease the length of vowels that are stressed about two times, compared to how you do it in English, for long vowel sounds. You should pronounce them two times shorter.
hello Denis 😎, which syllables (vowels) are stressed in this name, please could you rewrite it?
*Аслан Казбекович Карацев*
Is it maybe:
Áслан Казбéкович Кáрацев?
And how sure (100% confidence) are you in your given answer? 😀
Thanks for your help! 👏🙋😻
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Dil khush karditta tussi 🙂
The stress is about as free as people under Communism in North Korea. I must put stress on the right syllable to avoid changing the meaning of a word. If I wanted to compose a song, I couldn't move the stress to make the words fall into a certain rhythm. Contrast that to your word order which _is_ free because inflection on the endings sets the grammatical role of a word.
Stress in loanwords is not carried over. Some examples: ab'rasive (abra-ZIV), 'baseball (beis-BOL), e'vacuation (evaku-A-cija), 'generative (genera-TIV-nij), 'internet (inter-NET), 'interview (inter-VJU), 'magnetism (magne-TIZM), 'marketing (mar-KE-ting), 'partner (part-NJOR).
Even if you could trace the etymology of international words to another language, like french or latin, where the stress resembles yours, knowing this wouldn't be helpful to a learner.
Very useful! Greetings from Brazil
Thanks... and greetings from Russia
Júlio, eu comecei a aprender russo há 4 dias, desafio de quanto posso aprender em 1 mês, esse rapaz conseguiu responder minha maior dúvida até agora! Pena que descobri que "the stress syllable is free", vou ter que aprender a pronuncia das palavras na marra mesmo!
Of course, stress is free not for all words. But for quite many it is.
Hi, Denis! Try to talk a little about your personal life with your family and friends, funny scenes in Russian, with simple words, very slowly please! Also teach us some expressions like "piece of cake" (in Russian of course). Thank you in advance and good luck!
Please also add subtitle for this video. Thanks
2.
ONLY ONE SYLLABE CAN BE STRESSED
But I want to mention that rarely some compound words have a second stress. Like, for example:
-Highly gifted
высОкоодарЁнный
vysOkaadarYOnnyy
-Evergreen= Ever + green
ВечнозелЁный= Вечно+ зелЁный
VechnozelYOnyy
These are just multi composed words written together as a one word.
They logically consist of two words- so double stressed. But the truth is that you can pronounce these double stress words with one stressed syllable.
высОкоодарЁ´нный
Вечнозел Ё´ный
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MOBILITY
The ability of the stress to move to another syllable in different conjugation of case, verb tense, or gender, [singular or plural]. For beginners of Russian language it may look like the same word, but with different stress.
For example:
-This is water.
Это вода́ .
Eta vadа́ .
-Put this into water.
Положи это в во́ду.
Palazhi eta v vódu.
As you see the stress moved from last syllable to the first.
-I walk
Я хожу́
YA khazhu
-You walk.
Ты хо́дишь
Ty khо́dish'
So the stress moved along with the transformation of the verb.
6.
Memorize the proper word stress.
When you are a beginner you will read only text and words with a stress mark.
But in the real life no body is going to use stress marks in writing. So you will be on your own, which leads us to this point:
When learning new words remember where to put an accent mark. [´]
When you become a more advanced learner of Russian language, you will probably want to reduce your accent, in order to speak more like a Russian Native speaker. And stress will be one of the problems, since you naturally stress emphasized parts of words not as we, Russian native speakers do. So generally your stress is too long. English speakers tend to stretch too much compared to Russian speakers.
Stress accent in French is not always on the last syllable, it is mostly on the last, but not always. Much like English has stress mostly on the first syllable, but not always.
English actually has more of a fixed stress since all native Anglo-Saxon words have syllable-initial stress, and the mobility comes in loanwords, unlike French where native words can also have variable stress. Persian and Standard Literary Arabic (even though unrelated) have fixed stress on the last syllable.
Thank you for clarification.
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So let’s figure out the important thing about this Russian stress. In this video I’m going to tell you every thing you need to know about Russian stress. Let’s start with some basic simple most important practical things that are mostly about pronunciation. And then proceed with some advanced theory materials.
The word “STRESS/ACCENT” simply means emphasizing one syllable of the word. And by doing that you automatically deemphasizing all the other parts of the word.
Ударе́ние= Stress, impact
у-да- РЕ - ни-е = udaREEniye.
↓ ↓ ↓
Deemph Emphasized Deemphasized
-asized syllables syllables
syllables
PRONUNCIATION
STEP -1: STRESS AS IN ENGLISH
As a beginner learner of Russian, you can stress exactly the same way as you would do in English. That’s the beginner’s starting point. By doing that in English, your stress will not by bad, which means that Russian people will understand you. But English way to stress, of course, does not sound in a Russian native speaker’s way.
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BEGINNER’S STRESS RULES:
1.
Only vowels can be stressed as in English.
2.
One vowel words have a stress on this vowel.
3.
Only one syllable can be stressed.
4.
The vowel [Ё=YO] is always stressed.
5.
Russian stress mark looks like this:
[´]= Acute accent
DON’T CONFUSE IT WITH:
[˘]Kraitka[ breve]
Short I or Yot (Й й; italics: Й й) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. A breve (/ˈbriːv/ ( listen), less often /ˈbrɛv/ ( listen), neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle.
A life
Жи́знь [Zhizn ]
Iodine
Йо́д[Yot]
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Hello, Denis Fedorov [Russian native speaker, author and tutor] here.
Today I want to talk about the most important aspect of proper Russian pronunciation-Russian word stress.
Problems with the stress[accent] are very common.
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STRESS PROBLEMS:
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WRONG SYLLABLE
This can be this simple beginner thing when you emphasize the wrong syllable.
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NATIVE LANGUAGE HABIT
When you stress exactly the same way as you do in your native language, which causes a pretty strong accent.
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MOBILE STRESS
This grammar thing, when you find out that this same word can often change it’s stress.
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STRESS CHANGES MEANING
When there are these two words written the same [ looking the same], but they have completely different meanings due to different stress.
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There are many common problems and things that can be united under the banner of this stress thing.
RUSSIAN STRESS[´] IS FREE
So why does this stress causes so many questions and problems? The point is that the stress in Russian is free. There are languages where the stress is on the same syllable. Such stress is called “Fixed”.
For example, in French, accent is always on the last syllable. But in Russian it can be on any syllable. A pure liberty, like the founding fathers, who wrote the United States constitution, dreamed of liberty and freedom. So Russian is about pure old ideal freedom. And if a person does not know how to put an accent[stress ´]in a word correctly, one has just to guess where the stress falls on. That’s why there is no any native speaker of Russian language in this world, that could never thought to put an emphasis[stress ´] inside some word.
The stress came naturally to me
Don't be that stressed about word stress hehe
Dear Denis, we don't have emphasis on any syllables in French.
It's an old video. Don't remember what I said about French there, but, probably, that in French, stress (l'accentuation) is placed on the final syllable of a word. This means that word stress is easily predicted in French.
@@DenisFedorov No syllables are stressed in French. Not first, not last, none. We don't have this in French.
Век живи - век учись
Everything cool unless the relation between the US and freedom lol
Russian stress is not as free as russian people ?
ЛоЛ
you wave your hands alot.
No he doesn't, and don't be rude..