"Том сейчас в России."
Translation:Tom is in Russia now.
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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 ;-)
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!
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.
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"right now" is er... is more now than now. An it would be translated as "прямо сейчас", like "immediately"
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
word association: sounds kind of like "sea chess" Is SEA CHESS a game NOW comment if you have a better one
That doesn't sound gramitically correct in English. Maybe Tom is now in Russia.
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.
I have been trying to find the lesson that teaches сейчас. Is it with the country names?
"To be physically located in a place" is not the same as "to live in a place."
Россия is the nominative case. России could be either the genitive, the dative, or the prepositional case. Here, you need to use the prepositional case because of the prepositional в used in the sense of "being located in."
The phrase "Tom is in Russia now". Is more commonly used than "Tom now is in Russia.". Never before have I heard somebody speak in that mannerism.
Again, I'm confused... My answer felt right unless for Russian "lives in (...)" and "lives in (...) now" are 2 complete concept....
Unless the country has a regular noun attached to it or, in some circumstances, is a collection of islands, we don't use "the" with country names, so "the Russia" is not correct.
I dont get this. My last question was дженни сейчас в Америка which was translated as Jenny lives in America. When том сейчас в России came up I translated it as Tom lives in America. And it was incorrect. Why? Only the name changed
wouldn't Сейчас be at the end of the sentence not the start it makes more sense that way right??
