Russian Vocabulary (and Wisdom)

This Rusian word is one of the top 1000 words in Russian. The complete list of most common Russian words is available here.

Meaning: history, story, event, business

Pronunciation: [ee-STOH-ree-yah]

Part of speech: noun (feminine noun)

Rank: #257 (see frequency list)

• 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.

• 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