Five easy Russian adjectives similar to English

Today we will talk about 5 special Russian adjectives. What’s special about these five? It’s not a secret that languages borrow words from each other. But Russian is an exception. I’m joking. 🙂 It is not. Listening to Russian speech you will very often hear some words that sound similar to English. They have the same roots as English, German, Spanish and many other European languages.

But pronunciation is always different. So here are some Russian adjectives that have a similar sound to English ones and have the same meaning!

1) «Интересный» — interesting;

2) «Центральный» — central;

If you ever come to Russia and need to find a toilet, don’t worry if you don’t know the Russian word for it. It sounds almost the same.

3) «Максимальный»/ «Минимальный» — adjectives from maximum /minimum;

4) «Компьютерный» — an adjective from ‘computer’, computer related;

5) «Специальный» — special.

So here you go! Just listen attentively to Russian speech and you will notice that

there are many more Russian words that you already know.

Or at least they sound like words you know in English.

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