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[Opinions] Re: Tennyson and Alexandrovna

by LMS

2/13/2007, 12:48 AM

in reply to a message by Marija Luminitsa

Wow...thanks so much for that info about Alexandrova. Do you have anymore examples? Does it work for all Russian names?

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- Elena Alexandra

2/13/2007, 7:40 AM

I'm Elena Alexandrovna! :-)

It works for all Russian and also Ukrainian names :)
So I'm Elena Alexandrovna, my sister is Maria Alexandrovna. And if we had a brother, his name would be ______ Alexandrovich
:)

- Akis (guest) +3

2/13/2007, 5:32 AM

Yeah, it's the patronymic and traditionally used as a "middle name" for Russians. Like Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the son of Ilya, and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the son of Vladimir.

- LMS +1

2/13/2007, 6:52 PM

Sooo...(m)

So the ending for a female would just be -ovna and a male would be -ich? I am really interested in this now. Do you know of any good sites that can explain the "rules" of it, so to speak?

- Elena Alexandra

2/14/2007, 5:38 AM

The female can be -ovna or -evna
if father's name ends in consonant (Anton, Alexandr, Oleg), it will be -ovna. (Antonovna, Olegovna)
if the name ends in -y (Alexey, Andrey and so on), it will be -evna (Alexeyevna)
And the male patronimic can be -ovich or -evich, the same rules (Antonovich, Alexeyevich)
there are some exceptions anyway

- Marija Luminitsa

2/13/2007, 6:14 AM

Yup :)

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