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"Dad is in the Subway."
Translation:Папа в метро.
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If the underground train system being talked about is called "Metro" then that shouldn't be translated either. And if you are speaking in Russian about the subway in NYC then you wouldn't translate it into метро
I am afraid I would translate the subway in NYC to метро Нью-Йорка or Нью-Йоркское метро.
In Russian, метро is a generic name for that kind of transportation system regardless of whether the official name is some weird word like "U-way", "dungeon", "pipe" or "underpassage". That is, these transit systems are conventionally referred to as the metro of such-and-such city.
Сабвей, on the other hand, is a fastfood chain.
And now for something completely different: university departments in Russia are called факультет. I graduated from the faculty of physics at MSU. Talk about literal translations being crap.
Back to metros, Moscow Metro has had Cyrillic/Latin maps since 2002. Right now the maps inside the trains say "Moscow Metro". Other translations were also used over the years. However, the Metro of Saint Petesburg thinks it's a subway :)
What happens if you buy yourself a ticket and get inside a bus? Are you in a bus or on a bus? Or maybe you are just going somewhere by bus? :)
На метро is only used as a method of going somewhere. If you are telling where you are, only в метро is used.
"Alphabet" is a recent skill, a complete remodelling of what we had before. I am pretty sure more than 95% of its sentences were written by me personally. Maybe even all of them.
Confusion in England.....Subway means an American franchise selling sandwiches !
папа есть в метро - why not? Do you thing that always Russians eat word "be"? you are sure?
In Present Tense, "to be" should be omitted. It is used in the Past and Future Tenses, but not in Present.
"Папа есть в метро" is something like "there is a dad in the subway" whatever that means.
Папа есть в метро sounds weird, it's not proper Russian. English verb "to be" shall not be translated. Russians do not use it as English do. Never.
If you're using Windows 10 then just follow the steps here to add a Russian keyboard layout: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-your-keyboard-layout-windows-10
Once you have two layouts you can assign a hotkey to switch between the two. I use Right Shift + Ctrl
how can I get passed this if I cannot type nana on my english keyboard to satisfy this level?
Oh my god I'm just so proud because at least I had the right words. xD Not in the right order though xD
Still it's wrong in this case. You use "на метро" when you are saying which type of transport you are using: "я еду на метро". When you are indicating a place where you are (inside something) - it will always be "в". В театре, в метро, в автобусе.
I'm pretty sure "subway" shouldn't be capitalized unless you're talking about the restaurant. I would report it, but the option that says "The sentence is incorrect" isn't appearing.
Ah! If you are talking about Russian, the transportation system is called "metro".
I used "папа находится ту метро" which it said was incorrect, though it said that was a correct or acceptable translation, could someone tell me what I did wrong in that sentence?
