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Mark the stress in russian words with a ' character behind the vowel, e.g. ру'чки, this will be converted to ру́чки. Leave out the stress when it is unambiguous, which is when the word contains ё or only one vowel (the vowels are а, я, э, е, ы, и, о, ё, у and ю).

а

very often used word (#9)

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but

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oh

Also: ah, oh well

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Нет, не я, а ты! No, not me, but you!
Когда я вы́расту, ста́ну лётчиком. А ты кем будешь? When I grow up, I'll be a pilot. And what will you be?
Соба́ки ла́ют, а карава́н идёт. Dogs bark when the caravan passes by.
Мо́жет быть, а мо́жет быть нет... Maybe, maybe not...
А пра́вда, что «Спасибо» по-вьетнамски звучи́т «Come on»? Is it true that "Thank you" sounds like "Come on" in Vietnamese?
Э, сэр? На доске́ написана не экспоненциальная фу́нкция, а тригонометрическая. Er, Sir? What's written on the blackboard isn't an exponential function but a trigonometric one ...
А, так вот как до́ят коро́ву? Ah, so that's how you milk a cow?
В спа́льне у неё стоя́л столик. А на нём маленькая буты́лочка. There was a small table in her bedroom, and on the table - a little bottle.
У де́вушки на карти́не на голове́ вено́к из живы́х цвето́в, а не золота́я коро́на. The girl in the picture has a flower wreath on her head, and not a golden crown.
А теперь чего де́лать? So what do we do now?