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I am confused about this too. Is it sort of like saying "Good morning to you too"?
Agree. There is repetition, or redundancy. But this 'greeting' is in several other Duo languages too. Sometimes as a farewell, as Thanks, good morning. I do not say that either!
Hi!
Why Да here is "Yup" and not "Yes"? Also, are there different ways to say "yes" in Russian, just like there are "yeah", "yep", etc. in English?
The second way to say "yes" is ага́ (informal) or угу́ (informal, with a touch of sadness).
So in these sentences is the ending of добр- changing to agree with the gender of morning/afternoon/night etc?
Yes, it is. утро is neuter, день and вечер are both masculine. The feminine version of добрый is добрая.
Is добрый the 'regular' version? E.g. If I simply wanted to say "Good.", I'd have to say "добрый", and not any other version of the word?
I believe one would use "хорошо" for "good" in that manner, though I am not a native speaker. My Russian teacher would use "хорошо" as a compliment when we did something well. добрый I think translates more directly as "kind" or "nice". Other than these greetings, it is used to describe people ("He's a good/nice guy"). Maybe a native speaker on here can help clarify?
Russian dictionaries present adjectives in their masculine form, so you would see "добрый" listed in bold.
In my experience, "Добрый" is a common response to "Добрый день" or "Добрый вечер".
I used to greet my young children in the morning with "Добрая утка!"
Great, many thanks for the explanation - I guess I'm going to learn about this in a few lessons.
Why is it «добрый день» but «доброе утро»?
[edit] Ah, it has to do with the gender of the noun... :D
Can I just say доброе ночи for good night the way its used for good morning (доброе утро) instead of saying спокоинои ночи?
Yes, you can say "доброй ночи" (just not "доброе ночи", "доброе" is neutral and "ночь" is feminine).
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Why not добрая ночь? Apparently Доброе утро and добрый день are both nominatives or accusatives, but спокойной ночх seems to be a genitive. Why the different case ?
утро: From Proto-Slavic *(j)utro (“morning, dawn”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *auš(t)ra- (“dawn, morning”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ro- (“of the dawn or morning, matutinal; eastern”), from *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian aušrà, dial. auštrà (“dawn”), Latvian àustra, aũstra (“dawn”). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek αὔρᾱ (aúrā, “(esp. cool) breeze, fresh air of the morning”), Latin auster (“south wind”), Proto-Germanic *austrą (“east”), Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ (“Easter, springtime; name of a goddess” hence "East") (presumably from the goddess of the dawn, lust, fertility and spring, associated with the beginning of the year).
A variant *jutro appears in West Slavic, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian, and is also attested in Old Church Slavonic, but considered secondary; there are further Slavic lexemes that display an alternation *ju- in West and South Slavic vs. *u- in East Slavic. Variants with *(j)ustr- point to *ustr- < *usr-,[1] the loss of -s- being either due to dissimilation[2] or perhaps due to the law of open syllables, if the -s- was variably assigned to the end of the first syllable. According to Kortlandt, the acute on the root implies a zero-grade variant (which would have parallels in Sanskrit उस्र (usrá-, “reddish, ruddy, bright, matutinal”), उस्रा (usrā́-, “dawn, morning”)), which, however, is not attested.[3] The intrusive -t- is regular in Proto-Slavic, compare *ostrъ, *strumy.
the former - the stress is on the «у» and therefore the «о» is pronounced as «а»
i typed "да, доброе утро" and still rejected, the correct answer have no difference from what i typed this must be a bug
Imagine it being said by the Swedish Chef, and it makes more sense.
Русский: "Доброе утро, друг!" Sweed speaking bad Russian: Утро да, доброе утро!
