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| andy123 Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4316 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish | Message 257 of 464 09 April 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
why those thoughts about "you have to complete one action to start another" appeared at all ? couldn't we even in English say "I can imagine as I'm entering the hall and taking a cup of tea" ? for me, it looks like enumeration, you just imagine one picture, then another one and you don't have to bother about completing the first one, you can just drop it down... or may be I just didn't get the point, sorry then :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 258 of 464 09 April 2014 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
It's the conditional mood. There is no tense in the conditional mood. It's better to use the perfective aspect because you are talking about getting a good impression one time. You mean: "I would get a good impression from my trip", don't you? That's one single completed action. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 259 of 464 10 April 2014 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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HELP!!!
I am overdosing on grammar, which in itself puts me in a really foul mood. Then when I make mistakes, I always go back and figure out why I made the mistake, to try to avoid making it again, but here I am stuck. I cannot find out why what I wrote was wrong. I am working on adjectives of accusative plural, and was told to put молодаяа кошка in accusative plural. Since the rule said that for animate plural accusative, you had to choose between the endings -ых and -их, and for stressed adjectives you had to use -их, I wrote " молодих кошек" , but according to the key the correct answer was "молодых кошек". Can someone put me out of my misery and explain why? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 10 April 2014 at 8:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 260 of 464 10 April 2014 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||
My explanation is definitely not the best one, but "Penguin" gives you a list of the letters that need that change from "ы" to "и". I don't even have the book with me now, so I don't remember the explanation exacly. The letters are: к, г, х; ж, ч, ш, щ. I'll try to look for the exact explanation later today, when I get home. Take a look here: http://www.russianforeveryone.com/Rufe/Lessons/Course1/Intro duction/IntrUnit5/IntrUnit5.htm Edited by fabriciocarraro on 10 April 2014 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 261 of 464 10 April 2014 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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You have probably been looking at the paradigm for большой, which has animate accusative plural in -их because of the spelling rules so fiercly discussed in this thread.
Молодой, however, is a regular "hard" adjective and is not affected by any spelling rules, so the ending has to be -ых. The only difference for adjectives with stress on the ending is in the nominative and inanimate accusative singular masculine, which end in -ой instead of -ый/-ий. Edited by Josquin on 10 April 2014 at 10:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 262 of 464 10 April 2014 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you both, and I had indeed looked at большой which was the example given for stressed adjectives.
The thing is, that normally they give the general rule, and then they add that after the letters you both quote, other rules apply, but here they cited the spelling -и to be the general rule for stressed adjectives. I'll have to go back and look at it in the morning, and see what I have overlooked. Thank you both for your help :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 263 of 464 11 April 2014 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I have looked at it again today, and it still makes zero sense. The example given was not большой but
плохой. They say the following, page 50: If the plural object is animate, then the two possible endings for the adjectives are -ых and -их. Unstressed adjectives: новых/ хороших ( no unstressed o after ж, ч, Ш,Щ, Ц) Stressed adjectives: плохих. No exceptions are mentioned, but if it is -их anyway they would not have to. Then they also mention soft adjectives and possessive adjectives as ending in - их. So what am I missing here? If плохой becomes плохих, then молодой should become молодих! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 264 of 464 11 April 2014 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Плохой is another exception because of spelling (or phonological) rules.
The rule is: There is no ы after г, к, х (velars) and ж, ч, ш, and щ (sibilants). Instead, there is always и. Молодой, however, is not affected by these rules. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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