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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4672 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 42 05 June 2012 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This from a Pimsleur transcript:
В свободное время я занимаюсь спортом. In my free time, I’m involved in sports. "В свободное время" appears to be accusative. Shouldn't it be prepositional? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4672 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 42 05 June 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Same transcript:
У вас будет очень много дел перед выходными. You will have very many things to do before the weekend. Is "будет" correct? I thought it needed to agree with "дел" which is plural. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5047 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 42 05 June 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Both examples are correct Russian.
Let me give you a couple more examples to illustrate that. You can think of в свободное время, во время as set phrases for in my free time (notice how you put a comma in English): Во время уроков, я смотрю в окно. These phrases are sentence modifiers, they're not changed to agree with the rest of the sentence, because they aren't part of it. But you'd be correct in cases where it's one logically connected sentence, as for example in this one: В свободной комнате я занимаюсь спортом. будет много (чего? - дел, вкусностей, кого? - людей), будут многие (что? вкусности, дела. кто? - люди): На вечеринке будет много вкусностей. vs. На вечеринке будут многие вкусности. На вечеринке будет много известных людей. vs. На вечеринке будут многие известные люди. As such, one could construct "У вас будут очень многие дела перед выходными", but this sounds a bit awkward. E.g. "У меня будут дела"/"У меня будет много дел" doesn't sound awkward, but "У меня будут многие дела" is awkward. I'm not sure how to describe why it feels awkward. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4672 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 42 30 June 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks.
две русских реки две русские реки which is correct? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 5 of 42 30 June 2012 at 7:10am | IP Logged | |||||
Both. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 6 of 42 30 June 2012 at 7:12am | IP Logged | |||||
It shouldn't. It's like в субботу, в тот день, во время чего-то. Logically it should be prep., but acc. is used for some reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 42 30 June 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged | |||||
дел is gen. pl., the verb doesn't have to agree with it because it's not the subject. That's like коробка конфет - it will be singular. With numerals however both are used, that's a modern tendency of course. Пришло пять человек, Пришли пять человек - both are correct. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4672 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 42 30 June 2012 at 7:40am | IP Logged | |||||
Cool. Is one more common? I got the impression that because the genitive singular noun doesn't match the nominative plural noun, the genitive plural adjective is preferred. But it was never stated in my text book. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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