"эта ночь"
Translation:this night
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I agree - "this night" might be a direct literal translation, but I can't see any circumstances where I would use that phrase. "Tonight" seems to make more sense.
If you point dates in a calendar explaining any other night, probably.
Okay, although I guess in that case, I would probably use "that night" rather than "this night." But this course seems to accept "this" and "that" interchangeably.
Сегодня ночью. :) Pretty long compared to English, but it's usually what I see in translations.
…or «Сегодня вечером», if by “Tonight” you mean “This evening” (Today in the evening).
it's not possible to distinguish here if it's 'это ночь' or 'эта ночь' это ночь - means 'that time which is now is night' эта ночь - means 'this particular night' so both answers should be accepted
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.
I agree 100%. The only example I can think of is the Judas Priest song "You've Got Another Thing Coming" where a line is "Well listen this night there'll be some action spent!"
Thanks for illustrating my point. I just don't get why "tonight" isn't accepted as an answer.
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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.
Can't it mean "it is night"?
Что это? (Who is it?) Это Иван. (It is Ivan.)
If you want to say "this is" you always use the neuter format "это". Your example already shows it pretty well: Ivan himself is male, not neuter.
Is there any difference between ночи from "спокойной ночи" and ночь as it is used here?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe спокойной ночи are both in the dative case. Ночь is the nominative.
"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 :-)
I always get confused about when to use это or эта please help, if anybody can explain me in spanish much better. Thanks
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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
First, there's two meaning for это: 'this is' and 'this'. Example: Это мальчик --> this is a boy / я не люблю это мальчик --> I don't like/love this boy. Then, if it's a 'это'/this, you have to change it following the genre: эта is feminine (эта женщина ) and the aspect
I use a 'normal' keyboard. So when I have to type 'noch'' I don't know what I have to use. I always get 'almost correct'. Can somebody help me? Thank you
I would look up a tutorial to set up a russian keyboard on your device, it's a lot easier than you think. Also learning to type in russian is important if you ever want to talk to people online. I am getting close to being to type just as efficient in russian just from duolingo.
I cannot pronounce this to save my life. I think it's because of the softened ч, can anyone help?
