by Eldzhey
“Rozovoye Vino” (“Rosé Wine”) is a song by the rappers Eldzhey and Feduk, released as a single on 4 August 2017. It became one of the biggest Russian hits of that year: it topped the TopHit Top Radio and YouTube Hits chart for seven weeks in a row and for ten weeks in all. Our translation is built around a short hook that repeats many times: it is so beautiful here that the singer stops breathing and turns the sound down to a minimum so as not to disturb anything. The verse is a Friday night out: clouds like purple cotton, ice in the glasses, calls left unanswered, an ocean of a disco, no stress, and a wish to dance and have fun instead of being alone. The verse also mentions alcohol and marijuana. With so much repetition, the hook is easy to learn by ear.
Koinei's own English translation. The original Russian lyrics are not shown on this page: open the reader to follow them word by word with the audio.
It's so beautiful here
I stop breathing
Volume to a minimum
To not disturb
(last 4 lines x11)
It's so beautiful here
I stop breathing
Volume to minimum
To not disturb
These clouds are purple cotton
The magic of flowers with ice
In our glasses
Girl, it's Friday
I don't want to be alone today
What difference is it where I am
I don't answer the numbers calling
Don't even bother dialing
I want to LOL
We're already in a disco ocean
Of alcohol and marijuana
No stress
We eat like M&M's
(sung in English)
Breathe me in through the gas
My magic wand
In your hands
(repeat the 4 lines from “It's so beautiful here”)
(repeat the 3 lines from “It's so beautiful here”)
So as not to disturb
(repeat the 4 lines from “It's so beautiful here” x5)
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Type | In the song |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| красивый | krasivy | beautiful | adjective | красиво: neuter, short |
| переставать | perestavat | to stop | verb | перестаю: 1st person, singular, imperfective; here “stop” |
| дышать | dyshat | to breathe | verb | дышать: infinitive, imperfective |
| звук | zvuk | sound | noun | звуки: nominative, plural, masculine; here “sounds” |
| минимум | minimum | minimum | noun | минимум: accusative, singular, masculine |
| мешать | meshat | to interfere | verb | мешать: infinitive, imperfective |
| фиолетовый | fioletovy | violet | adjective | фиолетовая: nominative, singular, feminine |
| девочка | devochka | girl | noun | девочка: nominative, singular, feminine |
| пятница | pyatnitsa | Friday | noun | пятница: nominative, singular, feminine |
| хотеть | khotet | to want | verb | хочет: 3rd person, singular, imperfective; here “wants” |
| разница | raznitsa | difference | noun | разница: nominative, singular, feminine |
| дискотека | diskoteka | disco | noun | дискотеке: prepositional, singular, feminine |
«перестаю дышать» (perestayu dyshat) “I stop breathing”
Переставать (to stop, to cease) is followed by an infinitive, and verbs of starting, continuing and stopping always take an imperfective one: перестаю дышать, “I stop breathing”, or начинаю петь, “I start singing”. Перестаю is the present of переставать. Verbs in -авать drop -ва- in the present (даю, встаю, перестаю) but keep it in the imperative: переставай.
«чтобы не мешать» (chtoby ne meshat) “so as not to disturb”
Чтобы introduces a purpose, “so that” or “in order to”. When both parts of the sentence have the same subject, чтобы takes the infinitive: чтобы не мешать, “so as not to disturb”. When the subject changes, it takes the past tense form instead: чтобы он спал, “so that he could sleep”. Мешать (to disturb, to get in the way) takes the dative: не мешай мне.
«так красиво» (tak krasivo) “so beautiful”
Russian often describes a place or a mood with a word ending in -о and no subject at all: здесь так красиво, “it's so beautiful here”. English needs “it is”, Russian needs neither. The same pattern gives холодно (it's cold) and весело (it's fun), and with a person in the dative, мне хорошо, “I feel good”. Так works like English “so”.
«в наших стаканах» (v nashikh stakanakh) “in our glasses”
В with the prepositional case tells you where something is. In the plural the prepositional ending is -ах or -ях for every gender: стакан (glass) becomes стаканах, and рука (hand) becomes руках, as in another line of this song. The possessive наш (our) takes -их, giving в наших стаканах, “in our glasses”.
Translation, word notes and commentary by Koinei. Rights holders: see Copyright and takedown requests.