Nowadays, there are a few ways and options for using the word “well” in Russian. This word may be applied to various situations, therefore in this article we are going to tell you how to say “well” in Russian.
The adverb “well” is one of the most common words in the Russian language; it may be used in a lot of meanings, and contexts. It also has lot of synonyms which can be used to substitute it.
Here are a few examples:
In the second half of the sentence “well” is used in the comparative degree – “better”.
In this sentence, the word “хорошо” is used as a compliment, but “отлично” is one of the synonyms for this word.
In this context “хорошо” is used as a question. You may also use this question to make a compliment to someone.
It is used as a statement.
It is used in a negative meaning and means that everything went well until a certain moment.
The word “well” has a lot of synonyms, such as: круто (kruto) – cool, здорово (zdorovo) – great, неплохо (neplokho) – not bad, замечательно (zamechatelno) – fantastic, превосходно (prevoskhodno) – wonderful, чудесно (chudesno) – amazing, классно (klassno) – awesome, идеально (idealno) – ideal.
Examples:
However, there are also antonyms (words with opposite meanings), for example: плохо (plokho) – badly, отрицательно (otritsatelno) – negatively, нехорошо (nekhorosho) – not good, неудовлетворительно (neudovletvoritelno) – poor, скверно (skverno) – unpleasantly.
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