{"id":154,"date":"2008-07-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-07-16T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T18:11:37","slug":"%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%b6%d0%bd%d0%be-unimportant-or-unwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%b6%d0%bd%d0%be-unimportant-or-unwell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u041d\u0435\u0432\u0430\u0436\u043d\u043e\u00bb \u2013 unimportant or unwell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back I posted an entry with the title \u2018The Russian Emotion: Sickness\u2019 <\/a>, but it seems that I left one way of expressing feeling under the weather unmentioned back then. One early morning last fall a Russian friend told me: \u00ab\u0422\u044b \u0432\u044b<\/span>\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434\u0438\u0448\u044c \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e.\u00bb<\/strong> That didn\u2019t make much sense at all to me at first, since I thought she had just said to me: \u201cYou look unimportant\u201d. Well, perhaps I wasn\u2019t wearing a smart suit and it could be that I went too easy on the mascara that morning, but does that make a person look unimportant<\/em>? I was, to say the least, puzzled, this leading to silence on my part and caused her to further develop our conversation on her own with a follow-up question: \u00ab\u041d\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u0431\u043e\u043b\u0435<\/span>\u043b\u0430 \u043b\u0438 \u0442\u044b?\u00bb<\/strong> [You\u2019re not sick, are you?] That was when I had myself a little aha-moment and answered: \u00ab\u041d\u0435\u0442, \u043d\u0435 \u0434\u0443<\/span>\u043c\u0430\u044e, \u0445\u043e\u0442\u044f<\/span> \u0433\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u043b\u043e \u043d\u0435\u043c\u043d\u043e<\/span>\u0436\u043a\u043e \u0431\u043e\u043b\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u00bb<\/strong> [No, I don\u2019t think so, even though my throat hurts a little]. What turned out to be the beginning of a cold was also the beginning of understanding the second meaning of the adverb \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> – unwell; not very well.<\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it ironic that most of us tend to be feeling a little \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> when nature is this beautiful? Unless you\u2019re \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u0421\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0435<\/span>\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041f\u0443<\/span>\u0448\u043a\u0438\u043d<\/strong> [Alexander Sergeivich Pushkin]<\/a>, that is, who loved fall and was so inspired by yellow leaves that they caused him to write most of his masterpieces during this season<\/a>\u2026<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nHere are two other ways to use this word in sentences about sickness:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041e\u043d \u0441\u0435\u0431\u044f<\/span> \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e \u0447\u0443<\/span>\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0435\u0442\u00bb<\/strong> – He doesn\u2019t feel very well.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0423 \u043d\u0435\u0451<\/span> \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0437\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> – She has poor health.<\/p>\n

Of course, one can always use this word in its general meaning, for example exclaiming \u00ab\u041d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e!\u00bb<\/strong> [It doesn’t matter!] when asked window or aisle while checking in at the airport. You could also break up a silly argument about whether it\u2019s best to provide still or carbonated water for the speakers at conference about global warming with saying: \u00ab\u0412\u043e\u043f\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0441 \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u044b\u0439!\u00bb<\/strong> [It\u2019s an unimportant matter!]. And you\u2019d be right. After having said that you could add \u00ab\u041d\u0430\u043c \u0441\u0435\u0433\u043e<\/span>\u0434\u043d\u044f \u043d\u0443<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e \u0441\u043e\u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0447\u0438\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e\u043c!\u00bb <\/strong>[We have to concentrate on what\u2019s important today!] and you\u2019d be even more right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back I posted an entry with the title \u2018The Russian Emotion: Sickness\u2019 , but it seems that I left one way of expressing feeling under the weather unmentioned back then. One early morning last fall a Russian friend told me: \u00ab\u0422\u044b \u0432\u044b\u0433\u043b\u044f\u0434\u0438\u0448\u044c \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430\u0436\u043d\u043e.\u00bb That didn\u2019t make much sense at all to me at…<\/p>\n

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