Стретч-плёнка защищает мебель.

to protect

Breakdown of Стретч-плёнка защищает мебель.

• мебель: the furniture
• стретч-плёнка: the stretch wrap

Questions & Answers about Стретч-плёнка защищает мебель.

What exactly is стретч-плёнка?

Стретч-плёнка means stretch film or plastic wrap used for packing/protecting things.

A few useful notes:

• стретч is a borrowing from English stretch
• плёнка means film or thin plastic film
• Together, стретч-плёнка is the kind of plastic wrap often used when moving or storing furniture

So in this sentence, it refers to packing wrap that protects furniture.

Why is стретч-плёнка written with a hyphen?

Russian often uses a hyphen in compound nouns when one part is a borrowed modifier and the whole expression works like a single noun.

So:

• стретч-плёнка
• literally: stretch-film

This is just the standard written form of this compound noun. You should learn it as one vocabulary item.

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