"I need to cook potatoes for the salad."
Translation:Мне надо приготовить картошку для салата.
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English verbs generally translate into two Russian verbs, one perfective and one imperfective. Perfective verbs are used for a particular instance (Я хочу приготовить борщ на ужин. I want to cook borscht for dinner.). Imperfective verbs are used for general or continuous actions (Я люблю готовить. I like to cook.). There is a lesson a bit down the line about the difference.
I use the keyboard to write, as I've taught myself to write russian with it. Now, it said 'cook potatoes for the salad'. Logically I assumed they meant the word that actually means putting stuff in boiling water, you know... сварить... and it was wrong o.o when do you use that one?
The sentence asks for 'potatoes' plural, which should be картошки not картошку
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but it is said in the lesson that if the word is used as a mass noun, one must use the genitive instead of the accusative. So why is it used here картошку and not картошки?
Картофель is what is written on a price tag. We are not teaching it as a word that is common in speech, which it is not. Not unheard of, sure.
Well, a course teaching English or German does not have to concern itself with native Russian speakers stylistic confusion. We know both картофель and картошка, both помидор and томат. A non-native speaker, however, should know that картофель is used as a name you see in a shop, not something you use in speech.
Similarly, all the English courses I had, taught the word "TV" first. I was pretty surprised to see Duolingo teach "a television" as a word for a TV set.
I have the same question. I suppose сварить is to boil, but it was listed in the hover hints as cook
As stated above:
English verbs generally translate into two Russian verbs, one perfective and one imperfective. Perfective verbs are used for a particular instance (Я хочу приготовить борщ на ужин. I want to cook borscht for dinner.). Imperfective verbs are used for general or continuous actions (Я люблю готовить. I like to cook.). There is a lesson a bit down the line about the difference.
If картошку is a plural what is картошки then? Are thy both plural?
Potato, carrot, onion, cabbage are mass nouns in Russian. Both картошка (spoken) and картофель (formal) are primarily used in the singular.
A single potato is картофелина (if you ever need it).
