We were watching the 1970's Russian language movie (with English subtitles) Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa. This is one of my favorite movies, but I'm curious about something that Dersu kept saying. If the subtitles said "very, very bad", then the words he said would always sound like "ochi, ochi hooda" or maybe "ochi, ochi hoota". So can someone identify these as real Russian words and write for me what the correct sounds would be (sounds like what I've put above -- I don't read Cyrillic so it won't do me any good to write something in Cyrillic).
I realize there are probably a million ways in Russian to say something like "very, very bad", but I'm only interested in one that sounds like what Dersu was saying. Thanks so much.
2007-03-11 11:06:29 · 3 answers · asked by Larry 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's "ócheñ, ócheñ hóóda" (with the "ñ" in "ocheñ" being palatalized, it's as if you're starting to say an "i" after the "n" but don't quite make it a full vowel.)
The little mark above the "o" marks the stress of the words.
Yes, it does mean "very, very bad" and is mostly used when someone is feeling sick / depressed.
2007-03-12 01:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by Yeva 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
russian translation simple words needed
2016-02-01 04:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Agretha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ochen ploha, would be the closest to writing it in english as opposed to cyrillic. Ochenb (with the b, merely softening the n) is very, and ploha ( writing it like cyrillic would be nloxo, but I wrote pronunciation for english) is bad.
Hope this helps.
2007-03-11 11:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by texas hearts 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I can think of is "Ochen', ochen' hudo" (was he ill or something?)
"Ochen' ploho" is the normal way to say "very bad", but that doesn't sound close enough to what you're saying.
2007-03-11 19:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by Misanthropist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋