"Где международный аэропорт?"

Translation: Where is the international airport?

[the_grind]

Well, it felt like I burnt 30 calories just saying that!

[Andrew-Lin]

Chinese people use 4 syllables to describe a word that Russians use 8 syllables: "guójì jīchǎng" vs. "международный аэропорт" (Just a fun fact, of course)

[R_Andersson]

Ха-ха-ха...☺ It is easier when you break it up into pieces, as seen above ^^

I found it harder to say классической музыки.☺

[Vultax]

Is "международный" a compound word? Just asking to make it easier to remember

[Shady_arc]

Yeas, of course. Между = between , народ = people, nation.

[Shady330]

That Russian compound sounds much more "Soviet" than the English one.
One emphasizes the nation
And the other the people.

[freiling]

Nation originally only refers to a state colloquially. The literal meaning refers to a people with a collective identity, not the state itself.

[Vultax]

Thank you! :)

[Lex706350]

That helps wrap my brain around it... And my tongue. Aaahhh.

[bjyring]

Why can't it be "Where is an international airport?"

I'm having an hard time understanding what is meant in sentences without articles. It seems like it should be a matter of context, but the world is full of one-sentence statements and questions like this, and I assume Russian-speakers don't constantly clarify what they just said.

[TriggerSmooth]

"Where is an international airport?" should be accepted.

[keinemeinung]

This is gonna drive me nuts, but I feel like it should be "Where is there an international airport" if you're gonna go that route.

[Mateus_Muller55]

now, THAT is a big word...

[Kundoo]

Amusingly, "международный" has the same number of letters as "international" :)

[dirckk]

And it's even composed of roots with exactly the same meaning: "between-people-ish"! We English-speakers are so used to classical compounds we hardly even see how opaque they can be.

[aniapxox]

the second word was easier for me to say than "dlya" (for) and russian used to be my first language!

[darkmatter48]

'Aeroport' was not accepted