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Авось

Avos, trusting to luck

The Russian Flow: Learn Russian with Lёsha

Lyosha takes one untranslatable word apart: where авось came from, how you use it before an exam or without an umbrella, and why farming and a hard history made it a national habit. He ends with when it is safe to rely on it.

2319 words, about 18 minutes of reading.

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