"Это нож для сыра; это нож для рыбы."
Translation:This is a cheese knife; this is a fish knife.
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"This knife is for [...]" was accepted, though. Should it not have been?
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Technically, it means the same, but you should remember that "this knife is for..." is "этот нож для...", and "this is a knife for..." is "это нож для...". These sentences answer different questions. The first is "What is this knife for?", and the second "What is this?"
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I guess they accept it because the meaning is similar, but "This is a ..." is a more faithful translation because of the "это vs этот" thing that olimo explains.
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Для seems to have different sounds dlia and dle. Is it right? Any rule?
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It's not right. The word "для" has the same sound always
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Well, according to "The Phonetics of Russian" (Jones Ward, 2011), it depends on the context. If the я is followed by a palatalised (soft) consonant, it's probably going to be expressed as [jæ]. And in very rapid speech, the vowel could sound even higher (close to [jε]).
Native speakers (of Russian) would be the last people to realise this – that's only natural! But just compare the /a/ sound in сядь (sit!) to the one in сад (garden).
In this example, there is actually a slight difference in vowel quality, (probably due to the anticipation of the devoicing of the s in сыра, to be really pedantic). But I imagine Guido's question was more general, and the answer is yes, it does vary a little with the context.
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Insisting on the semi colon when the rest of the translation is correct is complete bs
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«для» (for) always takes Genitive nouns ‧ www.duolingo.com/skill/ru/Food/tips-and-notes ‧
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a knife for the cheese/s ‧ [ one of several generic knives, all of the same design, used for the various food items ]
a cheese knife ‧ [ an especial cheese slicing knife design which ruins or renders the item impractical to be used generically for other cutting ] ‧
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I put "this is cheese knife; this is a knife for the fish" and the correct solutions were: "This is the knife for cheese; it's a knife for the fish." and " This is a cheese knife; this is a fish knife." Shouldn't mine also be accepted since it's basically a mix of the two?
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The problem with your answer was the lack of an "a" between "this is" and "cheese knife".
This site http://starling.rinet.ru/morph.htm has two variants for the genitive singular of the word сыр, which are сыра and сыру. Does someone know why?
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Both «сыра» and «сыру» variants are right.
«Сыру» is a colloquialism.
Это нож для сыра ; это нож для рыбы.
In duolingo I wrote This is the knife for the cheese; this knife is for the fish.
Duolingo did not accept this answer. Instead it said. This is a knife for the cheese. It is a knife for the fish.
I feel that both should be acceptable.
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Technically both are wrong. Well, yours is changing это's part of speech in the translation, DuoLingo's is just weird because you typically wouldn't use "the" if describing something's general function.
"This knife" would be этот нож, but here it just says "это нож", meaning "it is" or "this is" a knife.
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Ok, I give up. When does the o sound like an a? Why does dlia sound like dle? Aaaaaaaahhh!
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Unstressed Os become A sounds. Also, unstressed Яs sound a little more like И. Don't know why you're hearing "dle" though . Maybe it's the TTS. EDIT: Just listened to it, they do kinda glide over it (but that is pretty authentic).
Most of the words get letter -a,I'm really confused about it,can someone tell me why please?
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Why would "This is a knife for cheese and this is a knife for fish" be an incorrect translation?
