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1151
The distinction (in English) between "tonight" and "this night" is vanishingly slim, and the cases where one would say "this night" and not have it sound very stilted are hard to imagine.
1151
Thanks for illustrating my point. I just don't get why "tonight" isn't accepted as an answer.
545
Good call. I just ran to my Oxford English Dictionary entry on "night" and learned that English night, Spanish noche, Latin nox, German nacht, and Russian ночь all come from the same ancient word. See the OED or the Wiktionary entries for night and ночь.
141
Is there any difference between ночи from "спокойной ночи" and ночь as it is used here?
"that" is a completely different pronoun: та ночь. You might be confusing them both with "это" (I did this all the time), but that's a different word, too. It wasn't clear from DuoLingo, but after much frustration I did my own research and began to understand the difference between это and этот/тот :-)
545
этот: masculino: этот телефон; эта: feminino: эта лампа; это: neutro: это письмо; эти: plural: эти телефоны, эти лампы, эти письмa
Estos son en el caso nominativo. Por supuesto, hay cambios en los otros casos: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%C3%A1tica_del_ruso#Pronombres_Demostrativos
I also struggle with это and эта, so I tried to figure it out for myself. Please, can somebody help us out here?
From my notes:
ЭТО vs ЭТА
Это means "This is" or "It is"
Этот means "This" but never "the, a or an" and is used with a masculine noun or adjective
Эта means "This" but never "the, a or an" and is used with a feminine noun or adjective
Эти means "These" but never "the, a or an" and is used with plural noun
Examples
Что это? What is this? ¿Que es esto?
Это кот It's a cat Este es un gato
Это кот This is a cat Este es un gato
Этот кот красивый This cat is beautiful Este gato es hermoso
Кот красивый The cat is beautiful El gato es hermoso
Кошка красивая The cat is beautiful El gato es hermoso
Красивый кот A beautiful cat Un hermoso gato
Красивая кошка A beautiful cat Un hermoso gato
Эта кошка красивая This cat is beautiful Este gato es hermoso
Эти кошки прекрасны These cats are beautiful Estos gatos son hermosos
Кошка на полу The cat is on the floor El gato está en el piso
Это красивый кот This is a beautiful cat Este es un hermoso gato
Это красивая кошка This is a beautiful cat Este es un hermoso gato
Эта кошка чёрная This cat is black Este gato es ❤❤❤❤❤
Это чёрная кошка This is a black cat Es un gato ❤❤❤❤❤
На полу кошка. There is a cat on the floor. Hay un gato en el piso.
It's not that hard to relearn. I would learn to type in the actual russian keyboard. They are organized the way they are for a reason. That's the most efficient way to type in Russian once you get the hang of it. I can type like 45-50WPM now in Russian after a month. (Still bad compared to my 80 in English, but whatever)