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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).
noun, male, animate
often used word (#631)
often used word (#631)
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author
Also: authoress, writer, composer, begetter
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- Если бы лю́ди никогда не влюбля́лись, или неуда́чи в любви́ не разбива́ли бы им сердца, о чём бы писали а́вторы пе́сен в свои́х те́кстах? If people never fell in love or got their hearts broken when love fails, what would lyricists write their songs about?
- Грэм Грин — мой люби́мый а́втор. Graham Greene is a favorite author of mine.
- А́втор э́той кни́ги мёртв. The author of this book is dead.
- Ты а́втор э́той кни́ги? Are you the author of this book?
- Антагони́ст – карикату́ра на всё, что а́втор ненави́дит, и в то же вре́мя на не́сколько поря́дков симпати́чнее всех остальны́х персона́жей. The antagonist is simultaneously a strawman for everything the author hates and the most likeable character by several orders of magnitude.
- Кто а́втор э́той фотогра́фии? Who took this picture?
- И́мя а́втора нам знакомо. The author's name is familiar to us.
- Каки́м хоро́шим учёным должен быть а́втор, чтобы написа́ть таку́ю превосхо́дную кни́гу! What a good scholar the author must be to write such a splendid book!
- Том - а́втор и исполни́тель со́бственных пе́сен. Tom is a singer-songwriter.
- Мария - один из мои́х люби́мых а́второв. Mary is one of my favorite authors.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nom. nominative | а́втор | а́вторы |
| gen. genitive | а́втора | а́второв |
| dat. dative | а́втору | а́вторам |
| acc. accusative | а́втора | а́второв |
| inst. instrumental | а́втором | а́вторами |
| prep. prepositional | а́вторе | а́вторах |
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