{"id":8881,"date":"2013-07-10T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2013-07-10T19:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T19:37:13","slug":"%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bd%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8881","title":{"rendered":"\u0420\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word <strong>\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438<\/strong> (restoranchiki) in the Russian lesson I&#8217;m working on today. It is the plural of <em>\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438<\/em>, a diminutive of <em>\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d<\/em> (restaurant), which has no exact equivalent I can think of in English &#8211; maybe restaurantette. You could say a little restaurant and a tiny restaurant, but I&#8217;m not sure if that has the same meaning. Can you suggest any alternatives in English?<\/p>\n<p>It appears in the phrase &#8220;<em>\u041d\u0430 \u041c\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0435 \u043e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0438\u0435 \u043c\u0430\u043b\u0435\u043d\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438, \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0441\u0435\u043c \u043d\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0435.<\/em>&#8221; (Malta has many very good, small restaurants, which are all cheap.)<\/p>\n<p>Russian and other Slavic languages seem to use lots of diminutives like this, and I think Portuguese does as well. Do other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word \u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438 (restoranchiki) in the Russian lesson I&#8217;m working on today. It is the plural of \u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0438\u043a\u0438, a diminutive of \u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043d (restaurant), which has no exact equivalent I can think of in English &#8211; maybe restaurantette. You could say a little restaurant and a tiny restaurant, but I&#8217;m not sure if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","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=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}