FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic
| Message 1 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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This will be a very quick question. I'm finding many words that end with -ого. Some of them, those I was taught at university, I know how to pronounce: with the -ого sounding not like -ogo but rather like -ava.
But those words that I encountered outside my course, I'm not quite sure how to pronounce them. A good example is those two words that make the title of this thread: много and немного. Would they be pronounced "mnova" and "nyemnova" or is the г in those words really pronounced like it usually should be?
Is the -ого ending always pronounced the same way? With the г sounding like a в? Is there a rule of any sort?
Thanks!
Edited by FrostBlast on 02 March 2011 at 6:52pm
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5370 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 2 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:06pm | IP Logged |
Is it possible that it's a v when it's an adjective, but g elsewhere?
Here, it's mnoga and nemnoga.
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FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic
| Message 3 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
Thanks! That was fast! :)
There should be a thread dedicated to those quick and short questions. I really don't like creating new threads every time I have a small question!
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5370 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 4 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:25pm | IP Logged |
FrostBlast wrote:
Thanks! That was fast! :)
There should be a thread dedicated to those quick and short questions. I really don't like creating new threads every time I have a small question! |
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Attends quand même la confirmation de qqn qui s'y connaît davantage que moi.
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FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic
| Message 5 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
J'aurais demandé à mon prof d'uni, mais c'est la semaine de lecture. Et ma conscience ne peut supporter l'idée de mal prononcer un mot aussi usité.
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polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5055 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian
| Message 6 of 18 01 March 2011 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
No, no, no. They are pronounced as they are spelled. These were among the first words I
learned! All though to me it sounds like an e at the end. I mean not an English e just a
regular e.
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FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5088 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic
| Message 7 of 18 01 March 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
polyglHot wrote:
No, no, no. They are pronounced as they are spelled. These were among the first words I
learned! All though to me it sounds like an e at the end. I mean not an English e just a
regular e. |
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A regular russian unstressed o. In IPA, that would be a ə.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-central_vowel
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5370 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 8 of 18 01 March 2011 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
polyglHot wrote:
No, no, no. They are pronounced as they are spelled. These were among the first words I
learned! All though to me it sounds like an e at the end. I mean not an English e just a
regular e. |
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Whether or not they were the first words you learned is irrelevant -- if you have any meaningful information to contribute, please rephrase your answer as it is currently incomprehensible. As a reminder, FrostBlast was asking about the pronunciation of г between vowels.
Again, I am no authority whatsoever on Russian, but I wonder if stress may not have a role to play -- Oga vs [i/a]vO (=g after stressed vowel, v before).
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