How is the word секс translated from Russian to English
English translation
Sex
noun Телесная близость между людьми.
Physical activity between people for pleasure.
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Examples with “секс”
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В фильме нет сцен секса. — The film shows no sex.
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Укажите пол в анкете. — Write your sex on the form.
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В книге вообще упоминается секс? — Does the book mention sex at all?
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В анкете спрашивают имя и пол. — The form asks for your name and sex.
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Секс — частая тема в её романах. — Sex is a common theme in her novels.
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Ты уже можешь определить пол котёнка? — Can you tell the sex of the kitten yet?
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English “sex” splits into two different Russian words. The activity is секс, a straight borrowing that entered Russian only in the late Soviet period. Male or female on a form is пол — a native word, and the one you need for “sex: M/F”.
Секс is a masculine noun and declines normally: секса, сексу, сексом, о сексе. The everyday verb phrase is заниматься сексом — literally “to occupy oneself with sex”, because Russian has no neutral single verb for it. Single verbs exist, but all of them are either crude or coy.
Forms of “секс”
- секс nominative
- секса genitive
- сексу dative
- сексом instrumental
- о сексе prepositional
Common phrases with “секс”
- заниматься сексом to have sex
- безопасный секс safe sex
- противоположный пол the opposite sex
- мужской пол male sex
How “секс” differs from similar words
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пол sex, gender — and also floor
Two unrelated words spelled the same. Пол on a form means male or female, and пол underfoot means the floor. Context separates them, and Russians barely notice the clash.
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любовь love
Not a euphemism for sex the way “making love” is in English. Заниматься любовью exists but sounds bookish and dated.
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