Capital (financial) in Russian 🇷🇺

капитал info.

Tips to remember the Russian word:
– Associate "капитал" with the English word "capital" as they sound very similar.
– Visualize a city like Moscow (a capital city) with lots of "financial capital."
– Break it down: "кап" (kap) like in "cap" (something valuable) and "итaл" (ital), which sounds like "metal" (often valuable).

Explanations:
– "Капитал" (kapital) refers to financial assets or resources, similar to the English word "capital."
– It can denote wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization, used for starting a company or investing.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– Финансы (finansy) – finances
– Средства (sredstva) – resources or funds
– Богатство (bogatstvo) – wealth

Alternate meanings like slang:
– In slang, "капитал" can sometimes be used to refer to someone's net worth or total financial value.
– It might also be used metaphorically to talk about intellectual or social capital (e.g., "умственный капитал" – intellectual capital).

Examples of sentences that use it:
– Компания привлекла значительный капитал для расширения. (Kompaniya privlekla znachitel'nyy kapital dlya rasshireniya.)
Translation: The company attracted significant capital for expansion.

– Он вложил весь свой капитал в недвижимость. (On vlozhil ves' svoy kapital v nedvizhimost'.)
Translation: He invested all his capital in real estate.

– Молодёжь — наш главный человеческий капитал. (Molodëzh' — nash glavnый chelovechesкий kapital.)
Translation: Youth are our main human capital.

– В современном мире информация — это капитал. (V sovremennом mire informatsiya — eto kapital.)
Translation: In the modern world, information is capital.

Romanized characters:
– kapital
– finansy
– sredstva
– bogatstvo

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