"past life"

Translation: прошлая жизнь

[PAINEDSCREAMING]

Now I know how to be a russian existentialist.

[coloraday]

What's wrong with 'прошедшая жизнь', please?

[Shady_arc]

прошедшая жизнь is a combination that is seldom used to describe the span of life that has passed already. "Past" is usually translated as «прошедший» when you are talking about grammatical tense (прошедшее время, настоящее время, будущее время). Your previous incarnation (metaphorical or real, if you believe in reincarnation) is «прошлая» жизнь.

[coloraday]

Thank you very much.

[IQnEQ4U]

What is the Anglo-Phonetic Spelling of "Life" in Russian ? I do appreciate the word bank for those of us that do not have the Capability of Switching to the Cyrillic Alphabet. I have tried jizn', djizn', jeezn', jhizn' and more..Thank You for your website. I am brushing up on Six Languages and am studying 7 More ! Blessings Always !

[Shady_arc]

Probably zhizn'

The sound of s in pleasure or g in genre is often transcribed as ZH. Like, similar to SH, only voiced.

[subtlepseudonym]

Would it be incorrect to say жизнь прошлая as a means of emphasis on прошлая?

[Shady_arc]

In poetry or similar contexts. Placing declined forms of adjectives before a noun is a serious business in Russian. We rarely use inversion here IRL, even though it is commonplace in songs an poems.

[Martin135869]

Like in "вставай страна огромная"

[tomgur2002]

Can one say «последная жизнь», and if so - what's the difference between these two options?

[Saffranova]

Последняя жизнь means Final life/The last life.

[Saurav.Sharma]

So, if I wanted to say. "My brother was a dog in past life." Would I say, "Мой брат есть собака в прошлая жизнь."....

[Kundoo]

"Мой брат был собакой в прошлой жизни".

[Marco163421]

Can anybody explain the sound of -ая here? I think it sounds something like prosh-le-uh, but can't quite figure it out.