Russian to English Translation
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All 198 language pairsAbout Russian and English
Russian (Русский) is a Slavic language (Indo-European family), spoken in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It is written in the Cyrillic alphabet: Russian uses 33 Cyrillic letters.
English is a Germanic language (Indo-European family), spoken in countries around the world; in India it is used alongside Hindi for the official work of the Union government, in courts and in higher education. It is written in the Latin alphabet: an alphabet in which vowels and consonants are separate letters.
How Russian and English compare
- Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and English in the Latin alphabet, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- Russian and English are distant relatives in the Indo-European family (the Slavic and Germanic branches), but most everyday words are different.
- Both usually put words in the order subject–verb–object, which keeps sentences close in shape.
| Russian | English | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Cyrillic alphabet | Latin alphabet |
| Letters | А Б В Г Д Е Ж З | A B C D E F G H |
| Hello | Здравствуйте | Hello |
| Thank you | Спасибо | Thank you |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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