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правописание

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Russian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From пра́вый (právyj, correct) +‎ -о- (-o-) +‎ писа́ть (pisátʹ, to write) +‎ -а́ние (-ánije), or their equivalents in Old Church Slavonic, calque of Ancient Greek ὀρθογραφία (orthographía), from ὀρθός (orthós, correct) and γράφω (gráphō, I write).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [prəvəpʲɪˈsanʲɪje]

Noun

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правописа́ние (pravopisánijen inan (genitive правописа́ния, nominative plural правописа́ния, genitive plural правописа́ний)

  1. spelling, orthography (act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words)
    Synonym: орфогра́фия (orfográfija)

Declension

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