pedant

1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.

   a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

   Pedant, Pedantin

   педа́нтpedánt, педа́нткаpedántka

3. (archaic)A teacher or schoolmaster.

1. The geometry teacher was a pedant.

   ruУчитель геометрии был педантом.

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2. He is what is called a pedant.

   deEr ist das, was man einen Pedanten nennt.

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3. Vanya is an even bigger pedant than I am.

   ruВаня ещё больший педант, чем я.

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4. He's a pedant.

   ruОн педант.

   deEr ist ein Pedant.

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5. I'm a pedant.

   ruЯ педант.

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