Как далеко до следующего города?

English Translation

How far is it to the next town?

The pronunciation is given in both Latin and Cyrillic characters, but both parts are problematic:

Kak daleko do sledujushhego goroda? ‧ как / далеко́ / до / сле́дующий / го́род

The Latin pronunciation doesn’t reflect that the -его ending is pronounced “evo” rather than “ego”.

The Cyrillic pronunciation is based on the dictionary (base/uninflected) forms of the individual words. But it doesn’t tell us how to pronounce the inflected words in the sentence. So, for instance, I have to guess whether следующего is accented on the first syllable (like the base form сле́дующий) or somewhere else.

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