Translation help

[Irina D. Shevelenko]

"Na fatere" means "na kvartire". It's either colloquialism or dialectism. The
word is still common for spoken Russian (I am surprised that your resident
native speaker didn't know it). It adds a somewhat ironic air to one's speach
(in today's usage).

I. Sh.

Carol Ueland wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>      I have a senior who is translating two skazki as an honors
> project.  One of them is entitled "Suvorushka" from the collection
> "Sibirskie skazki" collected by I.S. Korovkin and published in
> Novosibirsk in 1973.  There is one word which has us stumped, even our
> resident native speakers.  It is "na fatere" and occurs in the following
> context: "A gde Druzhevna Korolevna?  Ona vot na fatere u babushki.
> Togda vse troe poshli tuda".  Any suggestions would be gratefully
> appreciated!
>                                                             Carol Ueland
>
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