ну-ну
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See also: нюню
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ну-ну́ • (nu-nú)
- there there (conveys comfort)
- 1964, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], chapter 3, in Трудно быть богом; English translation from Olena Bormashenko, transl., Hard to Be a God, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014:
- Ну-ну, ти́хо, сказа́л он про себя́. Ничего́ стра́шного. Всё прошло́.
- Nu-nu, tíxo, skazál on pro sebjá. Ničevó strášnovo. Vsjo prošló.
- Now, now, calm down, he told himself. Nothing happened. It’s over.
- well well (pondering or consideration)
- come on (expression of disbelief)