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Old 26th August 2002, 19:44
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Regarrding the word âñå, how is it pronounced? It seems to be two syllibles, so which gets the emphasis (âñå or âñå)? None of my books say.

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Old 26th August 2002, 21:39
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Globehopper, in Indo-European languages a word with one vowel cannot have two syllables. The vowel gets the stress.
Mind though, BCE can be read as vse (all of them) and vsyo (all of it). The difference is in writing: in the second case, E should have two dots about it (but it sometimes does not - the context is supposed to give you the clue to which is which)
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Old 27th August 2002, 22:32
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Thanks SweetNovember.

By the way, I thought Ukrainian didn't have the ¸, just Russian.

One more thing. How do you say, "That's all." Is it different than "That's everything?"

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Old 28th August 2002, 08:25
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Oh, I didn''t realize you were asking about Ukrainian.
In Ukrainian 'all of them" is "vsi"
About "that's everything" - everything depends on the situation. It is not a common phrase and if people want to convey this meaning each person would do it differently.
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