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Sciman
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Sciman asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 7 years ago

What does the Russian word sowchos mean?

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  • 7 years ago

    Maybe you meant sovkhoz ( совхоз ) ? It's typically translated as state farm, a state-owned farm. The term originated in the Soviet Union, hence the name.

  • ?
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    7 years ago

    At first I thought you meant сейчас, which means "now".

    But the others are probably right and you mean совхоз, which is short for советское хозяйство - literally a "council enterprise" (совет - soviet - originally means a council, or an advice). As already said, they were state-owned farms in the Soviet Union.

    It was usually larger than колхоз (коллективное хозяйство, a "communal enterprise").

  • 7 years ago

    Now sovkhoz means a kolkhoz (farm)

  • 7 years ago

    It's not so easy without any context but it seemed to be 'sovkhos', a state-owned farm.

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  • 7 years ago

    Try an online translator. The one I tried didn't work with this word.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Maybe you meant "сейчас", that means "at the moment, right now".

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