And don't forget "sportsmen" (singular) for a male athlete - with
"sportsmenka" for a female athlete.
--
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Dacey
Sent: 06 December 2005 15:54
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OM][OT] Further chillies and hot and spicey musings
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It goes the other way too, in Russian you have dzhinsi (probably more
recongizable as jeansi) for jeans and chipsi for chips, taking the plural
forms from English and then adding the Russian plural.
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