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Жаворонок, сова

April 17th, 2009 by Don

In English we have several words for a person who likes to go to bed early and get up early: morning person, early riser, early bird. People who like to go to bed late and get up late are night people or night owls. If you go to a Russian dating service like http://russianwives4u.net or http://russianstuds4u.net (not that I myself have ever been to such a site), you may find that you have to specify whether you are an early bird or a night owl. The Russian equivalent of an early bird is жаворонок, literally a skylark, and the Russian equivalent of a night owl is сова, literally an owl. So you can fill out those parts of your dating profile like this:

Режим дня

☐ Я — сова.
☑ Я — жаворонок.
 

Daily routine

☐ I'm a night owl.
☑ I'm an early bird.
 

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