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It is «Я тоже!» or «И я!»
«Также» is a good, slightly bookish equivalent for «тоже» as "also, besides, in addition to what was said", but isn't much expected in "Me too!"
Thanks! One of the many things I remember about Russian is that there's также и тоже. One of the many things I've forgotten is when to use which... 8-o :) (I guess it kinda goes with the theme of the sentence, no? я ещё делаю много ошибок...)
I had to look this up in my old Russian textbook. According to it, также is used when one person is doing or being something else. And тоже is used when two people are doing the same thing.
Would it be accurate to say я также! is the equivalent of saying "Me additionally!"
Yo dudes, fun fact: from german (english's father) mach = make / do делает = makes / does - in a game i was playing in russian, the cops said "ты только делаешь хуже" (you're only making this worse) ...yeah make and do are the same word in a lot of languages...
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Is «ошибок» in accusative but because it is inanimate it is borrowing the case from genitive plural?
It is just the Genitive (required by много/мало):
- Здесь много вещей
- Осталось мало воды.
- Мы купили много продуктов.
- У меня мало хлеба.
- У неё мало друзей.
- У Дэвида много друзей.
I put errors instead of mistakes and was marked wrong.
vegetable nominative singular form is ошибка for genitive remove the а but that is now awkward so insert о giving ошибок
Some words ending in -ka become -ek in genitive plural, and some become -ok. Is there a rule to predict it?
The rule is rather simple: the vowel depends on the consonant preceding the -ка. The vowel is usually unstressed, and in this case the following rule works:
- О after a non-palatalised consonant (e.g. кнопка→кнопок)
- Е after a palatalised consonant (дочка→дочек)
- treat Ш, Щ, Ч, Ж, Ц as palatalised, at least in spelling. Pronunciation-wise ш, ж, ц are actually non-palatalised.
If the vowel is stressed, it will always be О, even after Ш and Ж. I find it hard to provide a relevant example apart from кишка→кишок. I flipped through the dictionary and could not find any other nouns ending in -жка, -шка or -цка that would have the word final stress.
