# Russian Dash Cam Translations

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-dash-cam-translations/717773 "2015-04-15T20:28:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-dash-cam-translations/717773/1 "2015-04-15T20:28:38Z")

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Russian Dash Cam videos are so popular that it’s impossible to find a link that tells me _what they’re saying in the background!_. I hear lots of words and phrases repeated, but the only one I know for sure is “suka”, which I think is the start of “son of a b\*\*\*h”.  
Is there a site that has the most common ones?

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-dash-cam-translations/717773/3 "2016-01-20T00:10:36Z")

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I don’t know of a site, but I’ll give you another pan-Slavic one, which is “kurva.” You’ll hear it pretty much in all the Slavic languages (and it even bleeds out into the non-Slavic Hungarian) and it literally means “whore,” although it is used as a general intensifier much in the same way “fuck” or “fucking” are used in English and, when translating, I’d generally use “fucking” instead of the literal “whore.”

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**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-dash-cam-translations/717773/4 "2016-01-20T11:11:20Z")

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List of Russian swear words here: [http://therusblog.com/2012/03/01/russian-swear-words/](http://therusblog.com/2012/03/01/russian-swear-words/)

The one I have heard most is BLYAT which according to that site literally means ‘whore’ but is also a general purpose swear word. I like it best when the car is heading inexorably towards an accident and there is nothing the driver can do to stop it - “Blyaaaaaaaaaat!”

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-dash-cam-translations/717773/5 "2016-01-20T13:45:39Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I don’t know of a site, but I’ll give you another pan-Slavic one, which is “kurva.” You’ll hear it pretty much in all the Slavic languages (and it even bleeds out into the non-Slavic Hungarian) and it literally means “whore,” although it is used as a general intensifier much in the same way “fuck” or “fucking” are used in English and, when translating, I’d generally use “fucking” instead of the literal “whore.”

**ticker** ’s post reminds me now that Russian is the exception, where “blyat” takes its place.