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Proper noun
Но́вый год • (Nóvyj god) m inan (genitive Но́вого го́да)
- New Year, New Year's Day
- Synonym: НГ (NG)
1893, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], “VIII”, in Рассказ неизвестного человека; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., An Anonymous Story, 1917:В по́лночь, когда́ в ве́рхнем этаже́ над на́ми, встреча́я Но́вый год, задви́гали сту́льями и прокрича́ли ура́, Зинаи́да Фёдоровна позвони́ла мне из ко́мнаты, что ря́дом с кабине́том.- V pólnočʹ, kogdá v vérxnem etažé nad námi, vstrečája Nóvyj god, zadvígali stúlʹjami i prokričáli urá, Zinaída Fjódorovna pozvoníla mne iz kómnaty, što rjádom s kabinétom.
- At midnight when the people on the floor overhead were moving their chairs and shouting hurrah to welcome the New Year, Zinaida Fyodorovna rang for me from the room next to the study.
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