"Is he not human?"
Translation:Он не человек?
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What's the difference between "On ne chelovek?" and "On net chelovek?" ? Спасибо!
The second variant is grammatically impossible. Нет is used as a negation (no!) or when there is a lack of something: no bread - нет хлеба. When you translate do not, does not, is not etc. use не.
What is the difference between the English no/not distinction and the Russian не/нет distinction?
Surprisingly enough, the rules of не/нет distinction in Russian are not that hard for the English speakers since не almost always copies not's behaviour and нет does the same with no. You can remember it as a rule of Reversed T's (yep, just made that up) since word-final т/t appears when its counterpart lacks it.
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The only problem is that the English "no" sometimes mean "not a" or "not any" -- in this case it works like "not".
I actually had that same rule in mind whenever I tried to distinguish between the two. I just wasn't aware consciously. Thank you good man.
Yes, this will be a very useful phrase when traveling intergalactically with Russian cosmonauts. I can hardly wait!
I responded "Не он человек" which was marked wrong. Should I assume that не behaves very similarly in grammar to english not
that would be stating "he is not a human", not asking "is he not a human". Slavic word order is usually pretty flexible, but this isn't one of those times.
Not exactly :) "Не он человек" means "Someone else (not him) is human."
"He is not a human" - "Он не человек."
In my mind, "Не он человек" doesn't make sense, because that would translate to "not him human," and I don't know of any native English speaker who speaks like that.
I answered "Он не челобека" because I thought that the object should be acussative but genitiv when living objects.
I typed "Она" instead of "Он" and it let me pass. This is unacceptable to me. I am trying to learn the right way to read and speak russian. I dont want to get away with not remembering the proper terms. I have it on the hardest level
In this sentence "human" is being used as a adjective. Shouldn't it be "Is he not a human?" ? Human as an adjective would be человеческий I think.
Он(he) не(not) человек(human).
Russians just do not use the verb "is"(to be) in here. They just kind of point to something and name it without a verb "to be".
"Это яблоко"--->"This (is) an apple" again "is" is missing, they do not use it here.
How do you get the 1st symbol in human? I cant find it on my keyboard at all.
It's under the "X" key. If you're using a phonetic keyboard then I don't know, but if you know what your keyboard is called you can google it with "keyboard layout".
The most literal translation of "человек" is "human". However this word is also very common in everyday speech in Russian, while in English "human" has more of a scientific feel to it, so it's better to use "person" to avoid sounding like an alien. Also "человек" is not gender specific, so it doesn't really mean "man", but it can be translated as "man" in certain contexts when "man" in English is used as a synonym to "person", i.e. when it doesn't focus on the gender specifically and is used as a more generic term (like in "to go where no man has gone before"). So basically you just need to use whatever is more natural to use in English.
Nouns and pronouns after copulative verbs (for example to be/is: it is in English, in Russian it is often omitted) are used in the nominative case, even if it is a negative predicate.
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Because it is not used this way. But the instrumental case is used in "Он является человеком" (which is more formal).
Он establishes that it is a man being discussed, so why is Он не мужчина? wrong?
Because that's a completely different meaning ."Он не человек?" is questioning his humanity, while "Он не мужчина?" is questioning his masculinity.
Im a bit fuzzy on человек having seen it be used for human/person and also for man as in the man specifically. Anyone care to elaborate?
Because a person is not an "it." A person is not a thing, so it is better to say "she is a person," or "he is a person."
So человек means human except when it doesn't in a prior lesson - then it was man. Make up your mind, how can I learn this if Duolingo doesn't know?
Isn't this "Is he not a man?" - I don't know the word for "human" - is it the same?
I originally learned some Russian in 1963 and we had native teachers and I have never heard the word "мужчина" until this course. We were taught the words человек for man, мать for mother, девушка for girl. I don't remember all them obviously or I wouldn't be here but those I do and several others that I just wonder about - did the language change or was it something else? Не знаю.
More than half a century has passed; of course the language would change. However I don't think that is the case here. In 1963 I hadn't been born yet, so I don't know it from personal experience, but from what I know from books, movies, people who are older than me, etc. the word "мужчина" existed and was quite common, and even back then "человек" meant "human" or "person".
My guess is that your teachers were actually from Ukraine (as far as I know people in the West used to call everyone from USSR "Russian") and their Russian, even if they spoke it natively, was influenced by the Ukrainian language. In Ukrainian "чоловік" indeed means "man".
Alternatively, they were trying to align Russian with English, where "man" is sometimes used as a general term for mankind rather that specifically "male". Russian wouldn't use "мужчина" for that meaning.
how do i do this when i don't have the russian typo on my computer?
Do you use Windows or Mac?
But anyway, you go to the keyboard settings and you can change your keyboard to Russian.
I did it and now I can switch between keyboards in a split of a second.
It is a good idea to keep a picture of a Russian keyboard handy, so you know which key represents which letter, but they are mostly phonetic so you can memorize them in a few hours of practice.
By the way, the same is on an iPhone
I'm not sure what you are asking for.
- "и" is a letter of the alphabet, and when it stands alone it means "and"
- "е" is just one of the letters of the alphabet.
If you are talking about pronoucation so И pronounced (ee) E pronounced (ye)
