Russian pronunciation query

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Deer Seelangers,

It's been a long time since I heard anyone say "с днём рождения" (I work
with written texts and have little opportunity for contact with the
spoken language) and I was wondering if you could clear something up for
me.

I assume the "с" is pronounced [з] because of the following "д."
Should I also assume that because it occurs between "с" ("з") and "н,"
the "д" is silent? In other words, do we get [знём ражжения]?

Thanks.

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Same as above, in transliteration for the Cyrillic-crippled
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It's been a long time since I heard anyone say "s dnem rozhdeniya" (I
work with written texts and have little opportunity for contact with the
spoken language) and I was wondering if you could clear something up for
me.

I assume the "s" is pronounced [z] because of the following "d."
Should I also assume that because it occurs between "s" ("z") and "n,"
the "d" is silent? In other words, do we get [znyom razhzheniya]?

Thanks.


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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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