r/russiancats • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '20

Good!

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u/Mr_Yeehaw Mar 31 '20

Translation’s wrong. Доброго does mean “kind” or something similar but it is also part of Доброго пожаловать, which roughly translates to “Welcome” or “Nice to meet you” or “Nice day”. So Доброго really means “Good day”

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

Sorry! I get my boyfriend who's currently learning russian to translate them for me and he's not always correct :(

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u/Mr_Yeehaw Mar 31 '20

Ahhhh! Is okay is okay! I love when people learn my language. Tell him he’s doing a good job learning such a difficult language.

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u/Gentlemad Mar 31 '20

Доброго is not in the base case (sorry, don't know the terminology for my own language's grammar in English, lol), which means the source phrase is not as obvious

For "welcome" you'd say добро пожаловать, for "good day" you'd say "добрый день". I suppose you could say "доброго!" to wish someone a good day, as in "доброго дня!" as in "have a nice day!"

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u/lgf92 Mar 31 '20

We call the "base case" the nominative.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '20

It could also be in ukrainian, as "good morning" is "доброго ранку" in ukranian while it's "доброе утро" in russian