What is the Russian word for grandfather and its pronunciation?
Friday, August 20th, 2010 at
10:35 am
More specifically what do Russian people typically call their grandfathers? Is it a shortened word? Thanks.
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de-dush-ka
de – like da in dad or dea in dead
ush like ush in push
so, dush should sound like ‘push’ but with D instead of P
ka – lile ‘Cu’ in Macaulay Culkin
short – дед (can be offensive) or деда. But really ussualy we use long дедушка
дедушка (The grandfather) pronounced de -dus- ka