@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
Post #2145149
2025-12-28 11:04 UTC
I faintly remember women getting an "-ova" appended to their name. How does that work? I'm totally clueless about Russian language and just curious btw.
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@xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-29 12:26
Most Russian surnames end in ов for men and ова for women. Their Patronymic middle names also change depending on sex. So a man named Ivan whose father’s name was Nikolai and surname is Fedotov would be: Ivan Nikolaevich Fedotov (Иван Николаевич Федотов) While his sister, Irina, would be: Irina Nikolaevna Fedotova (Ирина Николаевна Федотова) If you wanted to talk about their family as a whole their surname would become plural with a y at the end. Fedotovy (Федотовы)