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Пробовали со своими? Have you tried this with yours (your cats)? 🔻These Interjections👇 are used as: 1) responses to someone sneezing 2) as a formal variant to say good-bye • Будь здоров! (addressing to a man) [but' zda-rov] = • Будь здорова! (addressing to a woman) [but' zda-ro-va] = • Будьте здоровы! (polite/addressing to several people) [but'-te zda-ro-vy] SLT: Be healthy 1) (God) Bless you! 2) Good bye! Take care! 🔻These are imperative forms of the verb быть (to be) + short form of the adjective здоровый (masc.), здоровая (femin.), здоровые (plural) meaning healthy. 🤔Why the difference between the Russian and English phrases? 🇬🇧Bless you stems from a long-held belief that sneezing expelled the soul, making the person vulnerable to evil spirits. Saying God bless you! was a way to ward off this perceived danger. 🇷🇺The Russian phrase, while sounding similar to a wish for good health, doesn't carry the same superstitious baggage. It's a simple, polite expression of concern and well-wishing, a gesture of politeness and a wish for continued health, rather than a protection against evil spirits. 🔻By the way, the sound of a sneeze (onomatopoeia) in Russian is written this way: • Апчхи! [ap-ch-khi] Achoo! 🎧🗣👇Будьте здоровы! #useful_vocabulary #spoken_Russian 😎RCR | Support | Boost