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Kenneth Katzner, one of America's most distinguished authorities on the Russian language died May 25, 2003 in Washington, DC. He was 72.
Author of the definitive "Russian/English-English/Russian Dictionary," first published by John Wiley and Sons in 1984 with a second edition appearing in 1994, Mr. Katzner also wrote "A Russian Review Text" published in 1962 by Random House and "Languages of the World," with a fourth edition published by Routledge in 2002. In 1999, with his wife, he launched the online company Wordfind which produced and sold the CD-Rom version of his dictionary. It was programmed by Robert McNelly for the Windows operating system. The dictionary has become the standard reference work for students, teachers, and translators of Russian. Mr. Katzner devoted more than thirty-five years of his life working on the dictionary in his spare time and was completing the third edition at the time of his death.
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Accented Letters in English Words
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à - 0224 é - 0233 í - 0238 â - 0226 ê - 0232 ï - 0239 ç - 0231 ë - 0234 ô - 0244
Grammatical Indicators for Russian Words
Gender of Nouns
Given only when not obvious. For those ending in ь, the designation n.m. indicates masculine and n.f. indicates feminine. The n.m. designation is also used with nouns such as папа, дядя, and судья, which are masculine despite their -а or -я endings, as well as with many masculine nouns denoting people where the feminine form immediately follows.
The designation n.m. & f. is used with a large group of nouns denoting people, which are masculine or feminine depending on the person. The designation n.m. or f. is used with a small group of nouns (e.g., колибри) that are both masculine and feminine.
Indeclinable nouns ending in -о may be assumed to be neuter unless otherwise indicated. For those with other endings the gender is always given (e.g., кофе, n.m. indecl.).
Declension of Nouns
Unless otherwise indicated, the declension of a Russian noun is in accordance with the standard declension patterns for regular Russian nouns, with the stress remaining on the same syllable as in the word itself. All deviations from these patterns are given at the entry. If only the genitive singular is indicated, that irregularity, including a shift of stress, occurs throughout the singular and plural declension of the noun. If only the nominative plural is indicated, the irregularity or shift of stress occurs throughout the plural (but not the singular) declension of the noun.
Verbs
If a Russian verb has both a perfective and imperfective aspect, it is always listed under the imperfective, with the perfective following immediately in brackets. The perfective verb is also listed separately and cross-referenced to the imperfective verb unless it is alphabetically adjacent to the imperfective verb — that is, no other words occur in between. (Even if adjacent it is sometimes included in order to show an irregularity in its conjugation.)
Reflexive verbs are usually run in under the nonreflexive verb, with only the imperfective aspect given. Unless otherwise indicated, it may be assumed that the perfective of the reflexive verb is formed with the same prefix or ending as the perfective of the nonreflexive verb.
Unless otherwise indicated, the conjugation of a Russian verb is in accordance with the standard conjugation patterns for regular Russian verbs. Any deviations from these patterns are shown at the entry.
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Those who are used to typing English or another Romance language will find this keyboard easy to use. To type a Russian n, type the letter n. To type the Russian a, type the letter a. To type a Russian r, type the letter r. for remaining Russian letters the proper keys to type are shown. To type a Russian sh, type the letter w. To type a Russian ts, type the letter c.
For those who are used to typing using the Russian keyboard, that keyboard is also provided. You select which keyboard to install during your first use of the program.
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