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- "Я вижу длинную кошку."
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Was about to comment something like this :p
longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
You use "крупная" when you want to point out how big or fat the cat is. You can not use to indicate that the cat's length and therefore you use "длинная".
I thought it was "Длинная кошка - длинна."
Since the sentence is a predicate phrase, shouldn't the short form be used?
Perhaps. I'm Polish, so I defaulted to how it'd sound in Polish to make a joke. Works 60% of the time, but maybe not here.
go to norwegian, there are so many shitpost level questions in the tree.
Long? Is this normal russian word usage for big animals? Why not болишая?
I'd say it's just about exactly like "a long cat" is in English. It's not common, but it communicates a specific image (pretty well captured by the images above) and means something distinct from "a big cat."
No, it means the exact same thing in russian. It's a joke or an internet meme or something.
Whoa! Those are some REALLY BIG CATS!! Don't leave small children unattended!
I want to know as well! I assume кошек is partitive, like группа девочек? I kind of wish more content could be added to the partitive module.
Кошек is the Genitive plural, same as девочек, женщин, мальчиков, собак, лошадей, ложек, столов, братьев and сестёр.
You correctly noted that the form may be used in the partitive sense, i.e. in the expression describing some quantity of these objects: толпа девочек, группа женщин, полная комната собак, коробка ложек etc.
Why is "I see long cat" not accepted? Given that this phrase clearly references the meme, we should be allowed to drop the artcile in English - "long cat" is a name, after all.
Have a hard time nailing the pronunciation of this ую ending.
For starters, is it actually distinct from a simple у ending? When I hover my mouse over the word, the male voice really seems to be saying "длинно," completely leaving off the elongated sound.
