TRANSLATION OF THE NORWEGIAN SECOND PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUN DU INTO RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article says about translation challenges related to the Norwegian second person singular pronoun du. The research aims to reveal translation alternatives that help to show pronoun usage characteristics in Russian and Norwegian. The point is that, apart from few exceptions, only pronoun du is used for address to one person in Norwegian nowadays, whereas Russian has two pronouns used in such a way. Based on theory and example analysis, translation guidelines have been presented. The general conclusion is that one might use either the pronoun ты, the pronoun вы, or the verb’s infinitive form instead of one of the pronouns, which depends on the situation considered and the text type, for it is important that the option should sound natural given the context.