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The Frank Sinatra lover in me is disappointed that "Spring has sprung!" is not accepted, but I just had to try it :p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCVMCD72b0
(first few seconds)
I was sorely tempted to do the same thing, but just barely restrained myself. ;-)
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I does raise the question - are there similar alliterative idioms in Russian for any of the seasons?
I knew you were a Serb (or something along those lines) as soon as you've asked that question :P
Not really. If it's Slavic name, noun has to be something bit more "epic", and based on words such as Love,God,World, Rule-over-other-people .
For example, Vladimir means "Peaceful ruler" or "Rules in peace" or even "Ruler of the World"
Many names are also Greek and Latin-based.
I'm not talking about etymology of already existing names - names that have been historically established as names - but about parents being like "Oh, our daughter was born in spring, let's name her >Весна<", "Oh, isn't our child a ray os sunshine!, so why not give the name Sun!", while there has been no instances of these things being used as names, historically. Basically, I was wondering if parents, instead of choosing an already existing name, are allowed to come up with a name on their own.
Well, it's not forbidden by law, if that's what you mean, but it's a rather uncommon occurrence. Most people choose one of the existing names.
I believe the authorities can refuse to register some insanely weird name (like an unpronounceable cluster of letters), but something like "Весна" shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I thought as much. But seeing as I know nothing about naming children in Russia and having heard all those crazy names Americans come up with and are allowed to have, I really didn't know.
Oh well, that's exactly what I was talking about, it's the same in Russia, some parents invent names for their children and yeah, they can take a word like Весна and use it as a name.
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it's a common female name in Serbia, so common that I made a mistake and translated this sentence as "Vesna came" :/
This reminds me of a poem I once memorized; the second stanza is: ...они гласят во все концы: "Весна идёт, весна идёт, Мы молодой весны гонцы, Она нас выслала вперёд!
It's a fairly mediocre poem. Heaven knows why I still remember it so many years later.
My mediocrity reminds me of a whole lot more mediocre poem. It goes like this: «Чумачечая весна пришла, ла-ла-ла-ла-ла-ла-ла-ла-ла-ла.»
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And to make things really confusing:
Шла is the feminine past tense of imperfective идти
Пришла is the feminine past tense of the perfective прийти
Besides the shift from imperfective to perfective associated with the addition of the prefix, there are other "inconsistencies" which make simply tacking a prefix onto a verb an unreliable way of using the prefixes, although they do help understand the meaning of the verb. It's not like having to memorize a whole new set of verbs - but then, it's not a simple addition of a prefix, either.
Весна је име на српском језику. (Вэсна это имя на сербском языке.) Vesna is a name in Serbian.
This is a truly depressing thought where I'm from, so no exclamation point for me. Spring's arrival means it's quickly followed by 7 months of brutal summer. (Actually we really only have two seasons, Summer and Not-Summer.)
This is a depressing sentence for me too, but for a different reason. It's -30°C today and spring is still 3 - 5 months away.
Isn't summer after spring? Наступает лето.
But if it's winter, then
Наступает зима.
