Translation help

[Rodney Patterson]

Fatera is also in Dal':  (iskazhen.) kvartira, pomeshchenie, zhil'e, zhilo.
stojanka.

R. Patterson


>From: "Irina D. Shevelenko" <idshevelenko at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>
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>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: Translation help
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:51:20 -0500
>
>"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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