{"id":13557,"date":"2017-02-11T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13557"},"modified":"2017-02-11T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:09:49","slug":"aha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13557","title":{"rendered":"Aha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/aha.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"\u0430\u0433\u0430 (aga)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A useful Russian word I learnt recently is <strong>\u0430\u0433\u0430<\/strong> (aga) [\u0250\u02c8\u0261a\/\u0250\u02c8\u0263a], it is an interjection similar to yep, yeah, aha and uh-huh in English. It shows that you&#8217;re listening, but don&#8217;t necessarily agree with the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of usage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u041e\u043a\u0435\u0439, \u0430\u0433\u0430, \u043a\u0440\u0443\u0442\u043e = Okay. All right. That&#8217;s cool.<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0410\u0433\u0430, \u044f \u0442\u0430\u043a \u0438 \u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0430 = Here, I&#8217;ll show it to you.<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0410\u0433\u0430, \u044f \u0441\u043b\u044b\u0448\u0443 \u0442\u0435\u0431\u044f = Uh yeah, I can hear you.<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0412\u0435\u0440\u043e\u044f\u0442\u043d\u043e, \u043b\u0443\u0447\u0448\u0435 \u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0442\u0430\u043a\u0438\u043c \u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043e\u043c, \u0430\u0433\u0430 = It&#8217;s probably best to think of it that way, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u0434\u0430 (da) = yes, but, really<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0442\u0430\u043a (tak) = so, thus; like that; so much; just so, then, well, yes<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0443\u0433\u0443 (ugu) = yep, yeah<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/russian-english\/%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0\">Reverso<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/russian-english\/%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0\">bab.la<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A useful Russian word I learnt recently is \u0430\u0433\u0430 (aga) [\u0250\u02c8\u0261a\/\u0250\u02c8\u0263a], it is an interjection similar to yep, yeah, aha and uh-huh in English. It shows that you&#8217;re listening, but don&#8217;t necessarily agree with the speaker. Here are some examples of usage: &#8211; \u041e\u043a\u0435\u0439, \u0430\u0433\u0430, \u043a\u0440\u0443\u0442\u043e = Okay. All right. That&#8217;s cool. &#8211; \u0410\u0433\u0430, \u044f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}