The question’s pretty straight forward. If you saw an old friend from Moscow and basically wanted to say “Hey there Buddy!” (enthusiastic and informal), would you use “Prizet”, “Tovaris”, “Nazdrovia”, or none of the above? And what’s a word for friend or pal?
(Please write the answer phonetically if its pronunciation is not self evident.)
Thanks
priv-YET
Sorry. My (male) friend = moy drook
My (female) friend = mya pah-DROOG-a
I’m not sure you’d say that in a greeting though. It might look a little twee or quaint especially from a foreigner. Stick with privet if it’s an old friend.
“Tovarish” means comrade and unfortunately, hs such strong communist era connotations that it is shunned for the most part. (it has become analagous to comrade in English really, you wouldn’t use it unless you were being ironic or trying to signify that you are a communist)
I might say
[name]! kak delah? (stress the “ah” sound… del-AH)
= “[name]! How’s it going?”
That’s a very informal greeting and even a non-speaker of Russian has a hope of pronouncing it well enough to be understood. 