Russian alphabet · letter 16 of 33 · Old friends

О о

Name: о · IPA: [o] · Sounds like: o, "o" in more (unstressed it drifts to "a")

How to remember it: Same as Latin O. Only stressed о is a real "o"; unstressed it is a lazy "a": Москва = "Maskva". The accent marks show you where the stress is.

Example words

• кто kto – who
• окно okno – window
• том tom – volume

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