Russiaблин (blin)
interjection · Informal · BLEEN
Damn; oh no. The single most common mild swear in Russian and the one foreigners can safely use — a schoolteacher says it, a grandmother says it, it appears in children's cartoons.
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Russian Slang for Emotion & Reaction
12 Russian slang terms for emotion & reaction, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
Surprise, exasperation, delight, disbelief. Often interjections rather than nouns — words that do something rather than name something.
блядь (blyad)
interjection, noun · Taboo · BLYAT
One of the four roots of мат, and by far the most frequent in speech. As a bare interjection it is 'fuck' in the sense of 'damn it' — surprise, pain, exasperation — and in unguarded male speech it degrades into a pure filler dropped between clauses like a comma.
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капец (kapets)
noun, interjection · Informal · ka-PYETS
Disaster; that's it, it's over. The printable stand-in for пиздец, built to the same shape so that it can slot into the same sentences without changing the rhythm.
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кринж (krinzh)
noun, adjective · Informal · KREENZH
Cringe — the specific embarrassment of watching someone humiliate themselves without realising it. Borrowed wholesale from English internet usage around 2020.
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офигеть (ofiget)
verb, interjection · Informal · a-fee-GYET
To be amazed; as an interjection, 'wow' or 'you're kidding'. The clean parallel of охуеть, formed by swapping the mat root for the harmless фиг.
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охуеть (okhuyet)
verb, interjection · Taboo · a-hoo-YET
To be completely floored by something. As a bare interjection, охуеть is 'holy shit' — and, like the English, it works for the magnificent and the appalling alike.
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пиздец (pizdets)
noun, interjection · Taboo · peez-DYETS
Total catastrophe; the end of everything. The noun names a situation past saving — 'we are completely fucked' compressed into one word.
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похуй (pokhuy)
phrase, adverb · Taboo · PO-hooy
Don't care in the slightest. The construction is impersonal — мне похуй, 'to me it is [that word]' — and expresses a refusal to be bothered rather than mere indifference.
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вайб (vayb)
noun · Informal · VAIB
Vibe; the feel or atmosphere of a place, a track or a person. Used approvingly on its own — вайб! — and in вайбовый 'with a good atmosphere'.
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забить (zabit)
verb · Informal · za-BEET
To drop something; to stop caring about it and walk away. Always with на: забить на учёбу, 'to give up on studying'.
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заебал (zayebal)
verb · Taboo · za-ye-BAL
You've worn me out; I've had enough of you. Always in the past tense with the offender as subject — ты заебал — and always about accumulated irritation rather than a single offence.
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жесть (zhest)
noun, interjection · Informal · ZHEST
Brutal; heavy going; grim. Said of anything harsh enough to be hard to watch — a news report, a shift at work, a horror film.
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