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"Сейчас" is a general purpose "now". "Теперь" (pay attention to the spelling - that's how the word is pronounced as well!), on the other hand, is "now" in contrast to what was the case, or was happening before. E.g.:
Сейчас идёт дождь - It's raining now.
Теперь идёт дождь - Now it is raining (it wasn't before).
Мы сейчас опаздываем - We are running late now.
Теперь мы опаздываем - Now we are late (we weren't before).
In addition, "теперь" can be used as now in sentences like "Now, let's think" - "Теперь давайте подумаем". Since you are studying German, you will recognise this meaning of "now" as "nun" (as opposed to "jetzt").
Hm interesting, I was actually living in delusion. I thought Теперь was for general now, like "Tom lives in Russia now " , while it's actually "Now Tom lives in Russia" :-)
There you go a lingot, you kind sir ;-)
Actually here you go two lingots, I have 123 of them anyway, and you live only once ;-)
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"right now" is er... is more now than now. An it would be translated as "прямо сейчас", like "immediately"
Is there a good site where I can learn to pronounce the Cyrillic alphabet?
Look for a youtube video by R for Russia. It's two hours long but it's worth it.
That doesn't sound gramitically correct in English. Maybe Tom is now in Russia.
I don't understand if feminine nouns that end with -я get an -e in prepositional case, why is it России?
I don't think there is such a rule, actually. All examples that come to mind follow this pattern: feminine nouns that end with -ея get an -еe, but those that end with -ия get an -ии in the prepositional case.
I have found some tables with the prepositional case, and I didn't see these rules there. Thank you zirkul!
Why the HECK is "Tom is now in Russia" not accepted? This INFURIATES ME. PREPARE FOR COMBAT MR DUO, FOR I WILL NOT STAND DOWN UNTIL I ERADICATE ALL OF THE CORRECT, BUT UNACCEPTED, ANSWERS
Tip: According to the link below, в России is pronounced like a single word
http://forvo.com/word/%D0%B2_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8/#ru
That is correct. In fact, in all examples that come to mind, there is a general tendency of pronouncing "в" and what follows together, without any noticeable pause.
You could, but the emphasis would shift. Your sentence informs us about the timing of Tom's visit to Russia while the original sentence tells us about his current whereabouts.
You can read more about Russian word order in this excellent post: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/13955228
