When you get acquainted with Russians, you will hear Russian names which sound confusing and complicated for foreigners. It’s because Russian has many different forms to address one and the same person in different situations.
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Amazing Russian. Making Sense of Russian Names
1. Making Sense of
Russian Names
Русские имена
When you get acquainted with Russians, you will hear
Russian names which sound confusing and complicated for
foreigners. It’s because Russian has many different forms to
address one and the same person in different situations.
3. Every Russian has three names:
• the first name и́мя
• the patronymic (father’s name) о́тчество
• the last name фами́лия
These three names are used together for any
official documents including a passport.
4. First Name и́мя
• The first name is a given name.
• Russians are extremely inventive in creating new forms
of names. For example, there are more than twenty
forms of Maria in Russian!
• The full form Мари́я is used in official papers, in formal
relationships and with unfamiliar people.
• The short form Ма́ша is neutral and used in relationships
with friends.
• Ма́шенька is a form of affection (a diminutive).
• The unceremonious form Ма́шка is quite impolite but OK
within the family or between kids or adult friends.
5. Patronymic о́тчество
• The patronymic is used with the full version of the name,
never with a nickname.
Мари́я Петро́вна NOT Ма́ша Петро́вна
• The patronymic usually has the ending
-ович or -евич for males, and
-овна or -евна for females.
Examples:
If the father’s name is Ива́н,
his son’s patronymic will be Ива́нович,
and his daughter’s patronymic will be Ива́новна.
6. Last Name фами́лия
• The last name is the family name.
• Most male last names and female last names have
different endings:
• male last names end in -ов, -ев, -ин, -ский.
Ивано́ в Медве́дев Пу́тин Чайко́ вский
• female last names end in -ова, -ева, -ина, -ская.
Ивано́ ва Медве́дева Пу́тина Чайко́ вская
7. Last name фами́лия
R u s s i a n s d o n ’ t u s e l a s t n a m e s a s
f o r m s o f a d d r e s s .
Он... Она…
Каре́нин Каре́нина
Пу́шкин Пу́шкина
Ле́нский Ле́нская
8. Titles
Titles in Russian are used ONLY in official circumstances.
господи́н (Mr.)
госпожа́ (Mrs.)
профе́ссор (Professor)
до́ктор (Dr.)
профе́ссор Ивано́в
до́ктор Уа́йт
господи́н Пу́тин
госпожа́ Горбачёва
+ фами́лия
15. • Call your Russian friends by their first name or
nickname. Ири́на, Ира, Ирочка
• Call all other adults, especially your teacher by
their first and patronymic и́мя и о́тчество or
и́мя-о́тчество.
Ири́на Ива́новна
• Don’t use the last name as a form of address.
Addressing People
18. Её зову́т
Серге́ева Мари́на Петро́вна
Her close friends address her as…
1. Мари́на
2. Профе́ссор Петро́вна
3. Госпожа́ Серге́ева
4. Мари́на Серге́ева
19. Её зову́т
Серге́ева Мари́на Петро́вна
Her close friends address her as…
1. Мари́на
2. Профе́ссор Петро́вна
3. Госпожа́ Серге́ева
4. Мари́на Серге́ева
20. Меня́ зову́т
Джа́ррелл Ольга Леони́довна
My students address me as…
1. Ольга Джа́ррелл
2. Госпожа́ Джа́ррелл
3. Профе́ссор Леони́довна
4. Ольга Леони́довна
21. Меня́ зову́т
Джа́ррелл Ольга Леони́довна
My students address me as…
1. Ольга Джа́ррелл
2. Госпожа́ Джа́ррелл
3. Профе́ссор Леони́довна
4. Ольга Леони́довна
22. Его́ зову́т
Пу́тин Влади́мир Влади́мирович
To get his attention, a reporter says…
1. Господи́н Президе́нт!
2. Президе́нт Пу́тин!
3. Влади́мир Влади́мирович!
4. Господи́н Влади́мирович!
23. Его́ зову́т
Пу́тин Влади́мир Влади́мирович
To get his attention, a reporter says…
1. Господи́н Президе́нт!
2. Президе́нт Пу́тин!
3. Влади́мир Влади́мирович!
4. Господи́н Влади́мирович!