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What do you think of these male names and the diminutives I picked? The * is beside my favoutires.Gavriil nn "Havriusha"
*Ilya nn "Ilyusha"
*Mikhail nn "Mischa"
Aleksei nn "Alyusha" or "Aliosha"
*Dmitri nn "Dima"
Arkadi nn "Arya"
Zakhar nn "Zakharia"
Konstantin nn "Kostya"
Leonti nn nn "Leonechka" Also, what are your favourite Russian names and diminutives?
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I like Ilya (Ilyusha), Mikhail (Mischa), and Konstantin (Kostya).My favorite Russian names are:Mstislav
Luka
Fyodor
Nikolai
Ilya
Miloslav
Ekaterina
Marya (Masha)
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Of your list, I like Aleksei, Kostya, Arkadi nn Arya, Dmitri, and Mikhail nn Misha.My favourites are:
Oleksander nn Oleksa
Anton nn ToshaAleksandra nn Sasha
Yekaterina nn Katya
Lidiya nn Lida
Oksana nn Ksyusha
Mariya nn Masha
Natalya nn Natasha
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I really like Mikhail and Ilya, diminutives even more.My favourite Russian names are
Darya (& dim. Dascha)
Aleksandr & Aleksandra (& dim. Sascha)
dim. Dunya (unfortunately it's a dim. of Avdotya which I don't like)Lev
KsenyaI know a girl called Ksenya and her parents call her Ksyuscha. It's a cool nn but I can't pronounce it properly.
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I love them all. But especially Mikhail and Dimitri, as they're both big faves of mine. And I love the nn's Mischa and Dima as well.I think that's about all the Russian names I really love. I gotta go browse the Russian name section here, to find some more I could really like.- Charlie
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