Rus
noun A2- A Russian person (nationality)
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe s of rus becomes ' before a vowel: rus'um. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “my” ending is -um.
The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “plural” ending is -lar.
The s of rus becomes ' before a vowel: rus'unda. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: rus'unda. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nda.
The s of rus becomes ' before a vowel: rus'uyla. The last vowel, u, is back and rounded, so the “his/her” ending is -u. After a vowel, y joins the ending: rus'uyla. The last vowel, u, is a back vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yla.
From the library
Paris'teki Pasteur Enstitüsünde çalışan Rus bilim insanı İlya Meçnikov, Bulgaristan'ın bazı köylerinde uzun yaşayan insanların bol yoğurt tüketmesine dikkat çekti.
The Russian scientist Ilya Mechnikov, who worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, drew attention to the fact that people living long lives in some villages of Bulgaria ate plenty of yogurt.
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