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- "Доброе утро, папа."
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Спокойный means calm, добрый means kind. In this group of idioms, night (ночь) is usually used with спокойный in genitive case (it's a contraction of "I wish you good night" - Я желаю тебе спокойной ночи), while other times of the day are used with добрый in nominative case (it's a statement "This is a good morning" - Это "доброе" утро)
Yes, per other replies on other pages:
ann666
You have three genders in Russian - masculin
(Добрый), feminine (до́брая) and neuter (до́брое).
And word " утро" is neuter.
MenyaZovutMegan
Yes, it is. утро is neuter, день and вечер are both masculine. The feminine version of добрый is добрая.
Is gender always distinguished with suffixes, or is there something more going on?
Mostly, but there are some exceptions where the noun ending could be misleading. http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_gender.php http://masterrussian.com/nounsandcases/gender_and_number.htm Perhaps a native Russian would have more information.
Suffixes are also different for different cases as well as for number and gender. http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/adjectives.php
"Доброе утро, папа." is "Dzień dobry, tato." in Polish. So, I don't get it? Or do you mean the form: did you think it was going to be "добрый"? Day is masculine in Polish and Good day is used for Good morning there. Morning or "утро" is neuter in Russian. Day is masculine in Russian also. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dzie%C5%84
Did you put "Добрый день"? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C
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False friend is "утро" - it sounds like Polish "jutro" and "jutro" means "tomorrow" not "dzień" :)
Thank you! I want to learn Polish also, so I will watch out for that! Look at this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0 Tomorrow in Russian is "завтра" which is from the combination of за and у́тро. So, it is not completely a false friend. It is more that "Good day" is used for "Good morning" in Polish. The Russian morning does not mean the Polish day, but the word for tomorrow is a bit similar.
Well, in Spanish, the word "morning" (mañana) also means "tomorrow". Maybe even in Japanese, but I'm not 100% sure.
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In Dutch aswell. "Morgen" means both "morning" and "tomorrow". So there are more languages where that word has those two meanings.
So it means tomorrow in Polish, morning in Russian, and the words for tomorrow and morning are the same in Spanish (as mentioned below)
Languages are crazy.
I thought the "o" in утро would sound like an o instead of an "a". Not sure why this is.
Not "when the "o" comes at the end of a word" but really just when the vowel (in this case it's the "о") is unstressed: о -> [а], е -> [и] etc. E.g. in the word "метро" the "ο" is at the end of the word, but it is stressed and this word is never pronounced [метра].
The last person we see at the end of the day is mom And the first person at the beginning of the day is dad;) Obvious in these 2 sentences: Доброе утро папа Спокойной ночи мама =D
Why is "good" spelled this way for morning: "доброе", but this way for afternoon and evening: "добрый"?
I have this same question too, and from what I understand it's connected to gender. Morning has a different gender association than afternoon and evening. Oh and in case you were wondering, спокойной means closer to calm than good, which is why it's used for goodnight. It's situational though, so you would say it to your kid but you wouldn't really say it to your buddy after a night at the bar. That would be weird.
