Breakdown of Спасибо! Журнал очень интересный.
интересный
interesting
журнал
magazine
очень
very
спасибо
thank you
Questions & Answers about Спасибо! Журнал очень интересный.
Why is there no word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb "to be" (am, is, are) is almost always left out entirely. You just put the subject and the description together. So, Журнал очень интересный literally translates to "Magazine very interesting."
Does журнал just mean "journal"?
It can mean a logbook or academic journal, but in everyday Russian, журнал is the normal word for a glossy "magazine." It is a good example of a "false friend"—a word that sounds like an English word but has a different common meaning.
Why does интересный end in -ый?
The ending -ый is a common ending for masculine adjectives (describing words). In Russian, adjectives have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because журнал ends in a consonant, it is a masculine noun, so it needs the masculine adjective интересный.
Why does the letter "o" at the end of спасибо sound like an "a"?
This happens because of a very important Russian pronunciation rule. When the letter "o" does not have the spoken stress (the emphasis) on it, it gets pronounced as a short "a" or "uh" sound. In спасибо, the stress is on the "и", so the final "o" changes its sound.
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