Крайне оскорбительное расистское слово для чернокожего.
An extremely offensive racial slur for a Black person.
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Редакторы спорили, печатать ли слово «ниггер» вообще. — Editors debated whether to print the word nigger at all.
Словарь помечает слово «ниггер» как крайне оскорбительное. — The dictionary marks nigger as extremely offensive.
Учителя заменяют слово «ниггер», когда читают роман вслух. — Teachers replace the word nigger when reading the novel aloud.
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Download the app for free Russian vocabulary testThe Russian borrowing does not carry the weight the English word does, and that gap catches people out in both directions. Ниггер arrived in the nineties through hip-hop and film subtitles. It has no Russian history of slavery or segregation behind it, and it turns up in Russian media in ways that would end a career in the United States. That is a fact about how the word landed, not a licence — a Russian speaker using it in English is using the English word, with all of its history attached.
The more useful thing for reading Russian is негр. Until recently it was the ordinary, neutral term, borrowed from French nègre and used in textbooks and encyclopaedias. Younger urban speakers now avoid it; older speakers find the objection baffling. Both attitudes are current, and the word is genuinely contested rather than settled.
чёрный black
Literally black — but in Russian this word far more often means someone from the Caucasus or Central Asia than someone of African descent, and in that use it is itself a slur. Reading it as the English black will mislead you.
оскорбление insult
The general word. Russian has no equivalent of the n-word convention: the word is simply printed.
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