The perils of Russian plurals

[Drewbert]

Paranoid is good.

[alpha]

Originally Posted by JamesD

Cheers!



Reading between the lines, I'm guessing you've checked my sample domain from the forum sign up criteria, and think I need some help maybe, or am I being paranoid?

No I haven't checked it, but I'd put your odds at 50/50 of it being right.
Post it publicly, I'm sure one of our Russian members will pass comment.

[JamesD]

Билетынапоезд.com

I had this as meaning 'train tickets'.

[555]

Welcome to IDNF.

I am not native but if i got it right and with the 14,500,000 Results in google for "Билеты на поезд" and seeing it has google trends i am thinking it is a common phrase/term.

Maybe someone else can say if there is a shorter way to say Train Tickets in Russian?

What doesn't make it easier is that if you literally translate this to English it will be something like Tickets on the train.

[JamesD]

Originally Posted by 555

Welcome to IDNF.

I am not native but if i got it right and with the 14,500,000 Results in google for "Билеты на поезд" and seeing it has google trends i am thinking it is a common phrase/term.

Maybe someone else can say if there is a shorter way to say Train Tickets in Russian?

What doesn't make it easier is that if you literally translate this to English it will be something like Tickets on the train.

Thanks!

I worked off the exacts (33k) hoping it might be right - I know a lot of literal translations are clunky and expect to reg a few stinkers during my early learing days - I appreciate the help.

[bumblebee man]

Originally Posted by JamesD

I worked off the exacts (33k) hoping it might be right

With stats like that you usually can't be completely wrong.

Yandex exact is 54k btw

[IdnHost]

There is Проездные билеты, but i don't think it speciffically means train tickets and applies to any transit/transportation tickets, so bus/train

what you have is the right way of saying train tickets but your domain is 3 words Билеты на поезд, im trying to think of a shorter way of sayin this but at the moment can't think of any other way.

[Drewbert]

Sounds like you've done yourself proud.

[JamesD]

Beginers luck methinks - thanks for the insight guys.

[squirrel]

Originally Posted by bumblebee man

With stats like that you usually can't be completely wrong.

Yandex exact is 54k btw

why the exclamation point ?

[bumblebee man]

Originally Posted by squirrel

why the exclamation point ?

That seems to be the way of getting the "exact" search volume instead of "broad" as I learned here.

Now that we know it this should be the forum standard when posting Yandex stats.

Билеты на поезд

Just noticed I own a similar one: билеты на самолет. авиабилеты is the prime term though.

[glow]

Билеты на поезд is correct for train tickets

[squirrel]

Originally Posted by bumblebee man

That seems to be the way of getting the "exact" search volume instead of "broad" as I learned here.

Now that we know it this should be the forum standard when posting Yandex stats.



Just noticed I own a similar one: билеты на самолет. авиабилеты is the prime term though.

Reading this http://www.russiansearchtips.com/201...dex-explained/


I'm under the impression that an exclamation point is needed in front of every word that has multiple cases (?) so that a 2 word query could require 2 exclamation points to return the exact search volume.

[JamesD]

Originally Posted by glow

Билеты на поезд is correct for train tickets

Thanks - appreciated!

[bumblebee man]

Originally Posted by squirrel

Reading this http://www.russiansearchtips.com/201...dex-explained/


I'm under the impression that an exclamation point is needed in front of every word that has multiple cases (?) so that a 2 word query could require 2 exclamation points to return the exact search volume.

Don't think so. When doing so I get an error message. And the above number for "!билеты на поезд" seems quite realistic.

[JamesD]

Originally Posted by JamesD

Thanks!

I worked off the exacts (33k) hoping it might be right - I know a lot of literal translations are clunky and expect to reg a few stinkers during my early learing days - I appreciate the help.

GAKT is now showing 40k, and Yandex 121k exacts - traffic nil?? I know that some names get searched but don't get many type-ins, but from those figures you'd expect something wouldn't you?

[blastfromthepast]

Meanwhile some names don't get searched but get a lot of type-ins.