nasmejati

to make someone laugh (nasmejati se — to burst out laughing)

рассмешить (кого-л.); nasmejati se — рассмеяться

Examples from the lessons

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Wordplay & humour

Appears in immersion pieces

The Language of Animals · Justice and Injustice · The girl who outwitted the tsar

Next to it in the phrasebook

• zȅzānjekidding around (colloquial; bez zezanja — no kidding)
• dòsetkaa witticism, a quip (from dosetiti se, to hit on an idea)
• vȉcjoke (pričati vic — to tell a joke)
• ìgra réčīwordplay, a pun
• sarkàzamsarcasm (irony is the milder ironija)
• smejùrijaa hoot; also something laughably poor (colloquial)
• pȍdvalaa hoax, a trick played on someone (a cellar is podrum)
• štȏsa gag; also the point or trick of something (colloquial)
• šálaa joke (neutral; a joke as a genre is vic)
• šáliti seto joke (neutral; colloquially zezati se)

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