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- "До скорого."
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Yes, г is pronounced as в in -ого/-его endings and in a couple of other words like сегодня (see-vo-dnya).
The fun thing about the Russian language, grammar rules are filled with exceptions, and many of those exceptions have exceptions.
Haha, true. Tricky, but not nearly as bad as the problems non native English speaker encounter with letter combinations like "ough"!
And they told us that russian spoken as it is written. Only Spanish is almost true.
the syllables -его and -ого are generally pronounced as if the г was a в, i think
I believe it's because "yego" pronunciation is too difficult to say quickly and conversationally, so it's pronounced "yevo"
Polish still retains the "g" in such endings, and Czech and Slovak have the equivalent of "g" there, too ("g" turned into "h" there across the board so it's -eho).
Ditto Ukrainian. It always bugs me, because I'm reading in Cyrillic and at other times I know to read г as h rather than g, but when I see it in these endings my brain still wants to read it as v.
Is it just me? When I hit the hover hint for До it sounds like "dough" but when clicking the whole phrase the До sounds like "Da." I think this could throw me off in learning proper Russian pronunciation.
On its own, do sounds like just that, do. However, when you stick do with a word, you pronouce it as part of the word. Since the first o in skorovo is stressed, the o in do "reduces" (changes) to an a sound (like the a in bra or o in cot).
how can one tell that the first о in скорого is stressed?
By looking it up in a dictionary.
Russian word stress is, unfortunately, largely unpredictable: you can't tell just by looking at a word how it is stressed.
And sometimes, "the same word" can be stressed in multiple ways, e.g. окна can be either о́кна "of the window" (singular genitive, pronounced ókna) or окна́ "windows" (plural, pronounced akná), and замок can be either за́мок "castle" or замо́к "lock (to open with a key)".
Would "Later!" be an acceptable way of translating this sentence? "Later!" is used in informal settings with or by people of your age or younger or when you are being deliberately informal, I guess.
What would be the difference then between До скорого and увидимся and До скорой ???
When i click the listen button, it pronouces скорого like skorava but when i just tap the word it pronounces it differently. Like skoravo
I just asked two native Russians about this phrase and neither could figure out what it meant. It sounds like "old fashioned" usage to them.
It might (arguably) be slightly outdated expression, but I highly doubt there are native Russian speakers who would actually be unfamiliar with it.
I ended up asking 7 east Ukrainians, 2 Moldovans and 1 Russian from Moscow. The only one even familiar with the phrase was the person from Moscow.
I got a similar reaction from a Russian colleague. He says "nobody says it like this anymore". It's been replaced with "До встречи", it means "see you", literally "until we meet".
what is the difference between увидимся and до скорого, when would you use these terms?
In the word Скорого, when pronounced without До, the second o shouldn't be still pronounced like an uh sound since the first o is the one stressed ?
With the disclaimer that I am only a very unadvanced learner, I believe it means "until", so the literal translation would be "until soon".
I think you mean to say "that clears things up (for me)"? 'That clears me out' is like you're playing poker and you run out of cash, or someone robs you blind and you got cleared out. Not a very natural construction like this, but somewhat understandable in a different context. :)
What does "До" mean in Russian? Or rather, what is is used for because its also used in 'goodbye'.
Literally, "up to" or "until".
до свидания is literally something like "until the seeing", i.e. until we see each other again.
I learned it as пока meaning "Later" Literally- "until" and до скорого meaning "see you soon" literally - "until quickly"
The correct answer was not provided as one of the choices. The closest answer was "soon" which i was told was wrong
Why are russians confusing us...they should have written скорово instead of скопого
Why not go all the way then and write скорава?
Perhaps you would be happier learning Belarusian rather than Russian, as there the spelling is closer to the pronunciation.
What is the difference of до and да...... why do we put до in до скорого.
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Не говорим "до скорого". Ни разу не слышала в обиходе. Говорим "пока", "счастливо", формально "до свидания".
