Re: Another Russian Question
| From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 16, 2001, 11:11 |
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Privet,
> There are several ways to say "my name is:" Menya zovut
> [meenYAH zaVOOT]
> (literally me they_call) is one.
Yep.
> Another is Ya nazyvayus [yah
> nazyVAIyoos]
> litterally I call_myself)
Er, this is fairly grammatical, but ABSOLUTELY incorrect. No one says
things like that. Haven't you mangled it with Polish (Nazywam sie,...)?
> I have also heard Moyo imye - Peter [mahYOH
> EEMyah - Peter] (litterally my name Peter - Russian lacks a copula)
Yep.
> One to ten is:
>
> odin [uhDYEEN]
> dva [dvah]
> tri [tree]
> chetyre [cheTEEre[
> pyat' [pyatch - the "t" is palatalized, so it is not truly
> "ch," but more
> the "t" in "I'll let you - letya."]
> shest' [shestch - that same "t" again]
> syem' [syem']
> vosyem [vosyem]
> dyevyat' [DYEvyatch - that "t" again]
> dyesyat' [DYEsyatch]
11 - odinnadtsat'
12- dvenadtsat'
13 - trinadtsat'
14 - chetyrnadtsat'
etc..
20 - dvadtsat' etc.
> Russian is a great language
Hooray!
> "Svoystvo palacha nahoditsya pochti v kazdom sovremennom
> cheloveke" - F. M.
Is that from the "Prestupleniye and Nakazaniye?" - shame on me, but all
those Dostoyevsky novels are mammoth, hey, I can't remember about every
quote...
Poka,
Pavel
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