Hi, how are you? in Russian sounds like How are you, how are you, how are you?

Yes, that’s probably how a common Russian greeting can be translated.
Because Russians enjoy playing with words and wrapping the same idea in different ways. When it comes to (warm) greetings, we cannot be satisfied with only one way of saying how are you in Russian. That’s simply because we have so many ways to greet each other. Here are the 5% of them.

— Как дела?

— Как делишки?

— Как жизнь?

— Как оно?

— Как оно, ничего?

— Как поживаешь?

— Как сам?

— Как ты?

So when Russians meet each other they like to combine these phrases. Like this: «Как дела, как поживаешь?», «Как дела, как жизнь?», «Как оно, как поживаешь?». Sometimes how are you in Russian can be followed by ‘What’s new?’ – «Что нового?». And to learn how to answer properly check out this article.

And after reading this short article you will learn how to address Russians like Russian.

You see, all these expressions for how are you in Russian are too short for us, and we can’t stand short sentences. As you probably noticed reading this blog 🙂

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