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| Cristiana Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 6000 days ago 31 posts - 38 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 16 22 August 2009 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe in this case г is pronounced в because сегодня was basically formed from two words: "сего" and "дня" (this - day)? So the word "сего" would follow the rule of the endings -ого and -его being pronounced as -аво and -иво, like SII said.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 10 of 16 22 August 2009 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | ||
This would fit the pattern that we see. "Today" translates as "of this day" literally with both parts being declined into the genitive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 11 of 16 22 August 2009 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, essentially it is two words in the genitive run together into one.
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| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7188 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 12 of 16 22 August 2009 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Сегодня is a unique word though as mentioned above. Generally ого or его in the middle of a word will be pronounced exactly as you'd expect. For example, the г in погода is pronounced as a 'г'.
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| SII Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5792 days ago 184 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English | Message 13 of 16 23 August 2009 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
The _vowel_ sounds usually are pronounced not as they wrote. For example, "погода" is pronounced as "пагода" because the first "а" is unstressed and the second "a" is stressed. But indeed, the consonant sounds usually are pronounced as they wrote. Although there are some exceptions. For example, "солнце" is pronounced as "сонце", but "солнечный" as it was written. Edited by SII on 23 August 2009 at 3:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FinnKelley Newbie United States Joined 5711 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Czech | Message 14 of 16 10 November 2009 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | ||
I found that much easier to get used to than the rules for Б, В, Г, and Д. As in, Б sounds like П; В like Ф; Г like К, Д like Т... At the end of a word or syllable. Mostly because you learn to recognise -ого and -его whereas the others will creep up on you every few words :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Nadav3 Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6315 days ago 13 posts - 12 votes Studies: Ukrainian*, English | Message 15 of 16 26 April 2010 at 10:26am | IP Logged | ||
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In Ukrainian, we have same word for "pagoda"
Pohoda = weather. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5373 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 16 of 16 29 April 2010 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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его=his,him is another common word that г is pronounced like в Edited by 1qaz2wsx on 29 April 2010 at 12:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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