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How to say "history" in Russian
история
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Meaning: history, story, event, business
Pronunciation: [ee-STOH-ree-yah]
Part of speech: noun (feminine noun)
Rank: #257 (see frequency list)
Example sentences:
- Са́ша рассказа́л интере́сную исто́рию.
- Sasha told an interesting story.
- Его́ и́мя вошло́ в исто́рию.
- His name went down in history.
- Я с ни́ми в таку́ю исто́рию попа́л!
- I've got into such a mess with them!
- На пе́рвом ку́рсе с Анной произошла́ любо́вная исто́рия.
- Anna's love story took place in her first year (of study).
- Я люблю́ чита́ть заба́вные исто́рии из жи́зни.
- I love to read funny stories from life.
- Это уче́бник по исто́рии Росси́и.
- This is a textbook on the history of Russia.
Idioms and set expressions:
- любовная история = love story, romance
- старая история = warmed-over cabbage (literally: an old story)
- Вот так история! = A fine kettle of fish!
- попасть в историю = to get tangled; to get into a mess; to get into an anecdotical situation or accident
Other forms of the word (declensions):
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | исто́рия | исто́рии |
| Genitive | исто́рии | исто́рий |
| Dative | исто́рии | исто́риям |
| Accusative | исто́рию | исто́рий |
| Instrumental | исто́рией | исто́риями |
| Prepositional | исто́рии | исто́риях |
Audio recordings: Copyright© 2006 Streit Goulnara, Streit Eric, Vion Nicolas. Copyright© 2007 S. Sakhno, N. Vion. Distributed under CC-BY.
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