Glossary

Baldur's Gate 3: Game

Five in-game screens, one per tab: the radial action wheel with its slot-setup menu, the combat HUD and its turn resources, the non-lethal attack toggle, the disengage action, and two dialogue screens (narration and a companion's line, each with its reply options). Pick a screen, then tap a button to hear the line.

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Radial Menu & Combat HUD

Baldur's Gate 3 combat screen with the radial action wheel open on Дистанционная атака (Ranged Attack), the Настройка ячеек slot-setup panel at the right, the action tooltip below, and the turn-resource bar along the bottom

Character & Status

У́ровень 1
Level 1 (shortened to Ур. on screen)
  • NOM У́ровень · Dictionary form (masc., "level"), nominative;
    Used bare as a status label, printed after the character's name on the health bar.
  • The game only ever prints the abbreviation Ур. The full word is taught here so the audio pronounces what you actually need to recognise when it is spelled out elsewhere.
Лесно́й эльф, у́ровень 1, Следопы́т
Wood Elf, level 1, Ranger (the character summary under your portrait)
  • NOM эльф · Dictionary form (masc., "elf"), nominative;
    The head noun of the race name.
  • NOM у́ровень · Dictionary form (masc., "level"), nominative;
    Printed here as the abbreviation ур., the same word taught in full in the entry above.
  • NOM Лесно́й ("forest/wood") · Agrees with эльф, nominative masc singular;
    From лес ("forest"), so the race reads literally as "forest elf."
  • NOM Следопы́т · Dictionary form (masc., "ranger/pathfinder"), nominative;
    The class name, built from след ("track/trail"), so literally "one who reads tracks."
  • Следопы́т is also the standard Russian title of Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder, which is why it reads as the natural word for a woodland ranger rather than as a coined game term.

Radial Menu Setup

Настро́йка я́чеек
Slot setup
  • NOM Настро́йка · Dictionary form (fem., "setting/adjustment"), nominative;
    From настро́ить ("to adjust/tune"), used bare as a heading.
  • GEN я́чеек · Dictionary я́чейка (fem., "cell/slot"), genitive plural;
    Possessive after Настро́йка, "setup of the slots."
  • This label appears twice on this one screen: as the grey heading of the pop-up panel, and again as the button prompt in the bottom-right corner.
Зада́ть я́чейку
Assign a slot
  • Зада́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to set/assign");
    Imperfective partner задава́ть. The same verb sets a task, asks a question and, here, fills a slot.
  • ACC я́чейку · Dictionary я́чейка (fem., "slot"), accusative singular;
    Direct object of Зада́ть.
Поменя́ть я́чейку
Swap a slot
  • Поменя́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to swap/exchange");
    Меня́ть ("to change") with the по- prefix, which is what makes it perfective here.
  • ACC я́чейку · Same accusative direct object as in Зада́ть я́чейку above.
Очи́стить я́чейку
Clear a slot
  • Очи́стить · Infinitive (pf., "to clear/empty");
    Built on чи́стый ("clean"), so literally "to make clean." Imperfective partner очища́ть.
  • ACC я́чейку · Same accusative direct object as the two entries above.
Круговы́е меню́
Radial menus
  • NOM меню́ · Dictionary form (neut., "menu"), nominative plural;
    An indeclinable loanword: identical in every case and both numbers, so only the adjective shows that this is a plural.
  • NOM Круговы́е ("circular/radial") · Agrees with меню́, nominative plural;
    From круг ("circle"). Russian describes this wheel as circular where English calls it radial.
Доба́вить меню́
Add a menu
  • Доба́вить · Infinitive (pf., "to add");
    Imperfective partner добавля́ть.
  • ACC меню́ · Direct object of Доба́вить, accusative;
    Indeclinable, so the form is identical to the nominative. Only the surrounding words can tell you the case.
Убра́ть меню́
Remove a menu
  • Убра́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to remove/take away");
    Imperfective partner убира́ть, which also covers tidying up a room.
  • ACC меню́ · Same indeclinable accusative object as in Доба́вить меню́ above.
  • Printed in grey rather than white here, meaning the option is unavailable: there is only one radial menu configured, so there is nothing to remove.

Action Tooltip

Дистанцио́нная ата́ка
Ranged attack
  • NOM ата́ка · Dictionary form (fem., "attack"), nominative;
    Used bare as the name of the action.
  • NOM Дистанцио́нная ("ranged/remote") · Agrees with ата́ка, nominative fem singular;
    From диста́нция ("distance"). The same adjective covers a remote control and a distance-learning course.
  • Shown twice on this screen: as the label inside the wheel naming the highlighted slot, and again as the title of the tooltip beneath it.
Уро́н: 4~9
Damage: 4 to 9
  • NOM Уро́н · Dictionary form (masc., "damage/harm"), nominative;
    Used bare as a stat label, followed by the damage range.
  • Уро́н is the standard Russian games word for damage dealt in combat. Поврежде́ние, the other candidate, is reserved for physical damage to an object or a vehicle, which is why Arma uses it for a damaged wheel and Baldur's Gate 3 does not use it here.
  • The tilde in 4~9 is the game's own notation for a range, where English would normally print 4 to 9. The audio reads the label alone, since the numbers are a stat rather than vocabulary.
Атакова́ть на расстоя́нии теку́щим дистанцио́нным ору́жием
Attack at range with your current ranged weapon.
  • Атакова́ть · Infinitive ("to attack");
    Biaspectual: this one form serves as both the imperfective and the perfective, so no aspect partner exists.
  • PREP расстоя́нии · Dictionary расстоя́ние (neut., "distance"), prepositional singular;
    Object of на, giving the fixed phrase на расстоя́нии, "at a distance."
  • INS ору́жием · Dictionary ору́жие (neut., "weapon"), instrumental singular;
    The bare instrumental of means, "with a weapon," which needs no preposition at all.
  • INS теку́щим ("current") · Agrees with ору́жием, instrumental neut singular;
    Originally the present participle of течь ("to flow"), long since fixed as the everyday word for "current."
  • INS дистанцио́нным ("ranged") · A 2nd modifier stacked on the same noun, also instrumental neut singular.
Сто́имость: Де́йствие
Cost: Action
  • NOM Сто́имость · Dictionary form (fem., "cost"), nominative;
    An abstract noun built from сто́ить ("to cost") with -ость, an ending that always produces a feminine soft-sign noun.
  • NOM Де́йствие · Nominative, naming what this action costs;
    Taught in full as a turn resource in the group below.

Turn Resources

Де́йствие
Action (one per turn)
  • NOM Де́йствие · Dictionary form (neut., "action/act"), nominative;
    From де́йствовать ("to act"), used bare as a label on the turn-resource bar.
  • The main thing a character spends each turn, held apart from the bonus action beside it. Attacking, casting and dashing all draw on this one.
Бо́нусное де́йствие
Bonus action
  • NOM де́йствие · Same neuter noun as above, nominative.
  • NOM Бо́нусное ("bonus") · Agrees with де́йствие, nominative neut singular;
    A loanword root, бо́нус, fitted with the native adjective ending -ный so that it can decline normally.
Движе́ние
Movement (metres left this turn)
  • NOM Движе́ние · Dictionary form (neut., "movement/motion"), nominative;
    A verbal noun from дви́гать ("to move"). The same word means road traffic on a street sign.
  • The 35,0 printed beside it is a distance in metres. Russian writes a decimal comma where English writes a decimal point, so this is thirty-five, not thirty-five thousand.

Control Prompts

Осмотре́ть
Examine
  • Осмотре́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to examine/inspect");
    Смотре́ть ("to look") with the о- prefix, which adds "all around," so literally "to look over." Imperfective partner осма́тривать.
  • This is the verb a doctor uses for examining a patient, and the one a customs officer uses for inspecting your bags. Its reflexive form осмотре́ться turns up on the third screen of this page.
Вы́брать
Select
  • Вы́брать · Infinitive (pf., "to choose/select");
    Брать ("to take") with вы- ("out"), so literally "to take out" of a set. Imperfective partner выбира́ть.
  • Stress sits on the вы- prefix, as it does in nearly every perfective вы- verb. This is the prompt on the X button, and it appears on all three screens covered by this page.
Смени́ть компле́кт ору́жия
Switch weapon set
  • Смени́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to change/switch");
    Imperfective partner сменя́ть. Related to поменя́ть in the slot-setup menu above, both built on меня́ть.
  • ACC компле́кт · Dictionary form (masc., "set/kit"), accusative;
    Direct object of Смени́ть, spelled identically to the nominative because it is inanimate.
  • GEN ору́жия · Dictionary ору́жие (neut., "weapon"), genitive singular;
    Possessive after компле́кт, "a set of weaponry." Ору́жие is a collective noun, so the singular covers a whole arsenal.
Закры́ть
Close
  • Закры́ть · Infinitive (pf., "to close/shut");
    Imperfective partner закрыва́ть. Its opposite, откры́ть, appears twice on the third screen of this page.