Talk:Russian/Lesson 3

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Incorrect:
 * Я — студе́нт
 * Ты — не студе́нт

Correct:
 * Я студе́нт (I am student)
 * Ты не студе́нт (he is not student)
 * Этот мальчик — студент (This boy is a student)
 * Моя жизнь — игра (my life is a game)

Exception of a rule: the dash is not put between a pronoun and a verb

I think this lesson is great! But maybe a bit too much! It can and should be spread over many lessons! :) Guaka 19:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I removed reference to 'thou' as the English formal used in Bibles, because 'thou' has never been the formal second person singular; it was the informal with 'ye' being the formal. Eventually, the objective 'you' spread to take over the nominative 'ye' and 'thou' to become nominative itself, and the other forms died out. Therefore, it destroys the entire analogy used, so I removed it.

This Lesson is very iformative. I just want to say thank-you for your help. 206.176.108.126 14:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Possesives?
Uhm, do the people writing this book honestly not know Russian?

What do prepositional case possesive pronouns have to do with anything? 1. They're under the topic "verb conjugation, past tense" 2. Have you said anything about normal possesives and if yes then where? How about a link to that place? 3. Oh yeah, and the opposite of "have to" is actually "not have to" "nye dolzhen".

Ladywater 06:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

about the articles
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It is actually incorrect. "I am the student." implies that speaker says he's the student mentioned before. I guess it should be translated "Я тот студент." (literally, I'm that student) or "Студень - это я". Russian doesn't have articles, but it has different means to convey the meanings for which articles are used in English.

Formal and Informal
'The word "your" also comes in formal and informal: вас (formal) and тебя (informal).'

This is incorrect. Your would be ваш (formal) and твой (informal) (nominative case of possessive pronouns) while вас and тебя are genitive forms of pronouns вы and ты and cannot be translated as yours.

Bogdan

The acronym FYI is used. This may be familiar to an American reader but it is not to this English one. Having looked it up, however, I still cannot make sense of the the sentence in which it is used. Nithsdale (discuss • contribs) 22:34, 21 February 2012 (UTC)


 * "This is incorrect. Your would be ваш (formal) and твой (informal) (nominative case of possessive pronouns) while вас and тебя are genitive forms of pronouns вы and ты and cannot be translated as yours."
 * Agree. Changed. Girabbit85 (discuss • contribs) 10:10, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree. Changed. Girabbit85 (discuss • contribs) 10:10, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you
I just wanted to say thank you to whoever wrote this. It saved me from saying "Я учу русский язык." Cheers, Reading Rambo (discuss • contribs) 00:59, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Dash characters
Most HTML References Are Wrong

I’ve lost count of all the books, articles, and websites that claim an em dash is “&#151;”—but they’re all wrong. The entire range from  through  are invalid characters, and consequently should not be used.

reference: http://alistapart.com/article/emen

If your seeing &#151 instead of dashes this is why. 104.246.47.236 (discuss) 21:26, 25 May 2016 (UTC)