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🥂 Выпьем на брудершафт? 🔻The Russian phrase на брудершафт [na broo-der-shaft] has a fascinating German origin and a very specific social meaning. 🔻It comes from the German Brüderschaft trinken– literally, to drink to brotherhood. 🔻This custom was adopted into Russian aristocratic circles in the 18th-19th centuries. 🔻Drinking на брудершафт was a formal ritual to transition from the polite, distant Вы (formal you) to the close, familiar ты (informal you). 🔻The traditional ritual involved: 1. Linking arms. 2. Drinking a glass of wine or champagne together. 3. Kissing three times (often on the cheeks). 4. From that moment on, the two people would address each other only as ты and become very close friends. So, to drink на брудершафт is to drink to a new level of friendship! 🤝 #brief_and_interesting #etymology #russian_culture #useful_vocabulary #spoken_Russian 😎RCR | Support | Boost