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Words with Root “де́с-лет” in Russian
Browse Russian words sharing the root “де́с-лет”, complete with pronunciations, syllable breakdowns, and linguistic insights.
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де́с-лет Combination of 'десять' (ten) and 'год' (year), forming the base for 'eighty years'.
восьмидесятилетнему
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во·сь·ми·де·ся·ти·ле́т·не·му
/vɐˈsʲmʲɪdʲɪˈsʲætʲɪˈlʲetnʲɪmʊ/
adjective
The word 'восьмидесятилетнему' is a complex Russian adjective meaning 'to an eighty-year-old (man)'. It's syllabified as во-сь-ми-де-ся-ти-ле́т-не-му, with stress on 'ле́т'. The word is formed from numeral prefixes and suffixes, and its syllabification follows standard Russian rules of consonant cluster splitting and maximizing onsets, while accounting for vowel reduction.