"Are you an actor?"
Translation:Ты актёр?
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to go on without Russian keyboard, copy/paste the answer, after the first "mistake"
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you know there are really good russian inputs adapted to qwerty keyboards out there, right? This is one of them: http://russian.typeit.org/ http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm#inst
It has the "Student" layout, meaning the letters are arranged phonetically. To know where is what, you can have a look at this, because this keyboard has the student layout as well: http://russian.typeit.org/
Hope that helps!
Quick edit. For phone users, I can't really help for iPhones but you should be able to find some nice russian keyboards in your store with that layout, and for Android users, I've found really useful Gboard's (Google's input on phones, should be the one you're using by default) function of having multiple languages to be really useful. You can just add the russian input in Gboard's settings (inside of the phone settings, it's located in language and input methods or similar), and then be able to switch to russian input just by holding down the spacebar on the Gboard keyboard.
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Русские говорят Вы более старшим по возрасту и положению. Друзья говорят друг другу Ты.
Exactly :) our course is what you would call ё-compliant, which means it uses ё in sentences. In some countries, ё is not considered a separate letter. For example, in Russia ё can be replaced with e, while in Belarus ё is separate from e. Even so, both countries use ё.
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Е sounds like je when stressed and like i when not, ë is jo and it is always stressed... usually you write the two points only when writing pronouns
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This is not always true by the way. I have gotten one or two "wrongs" (still, after hundreds of exercises), where the "mistake" was 'еще' instead of 'ещё'.
I'm still wary of omitting the dots, as having to repeat the task only because of that is a kspitfa.
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Help, I am not sure if I have thd correct keyboard. Is it the correct one? ( љњертѕуиопшѓасдфгхјклчќзџцвбнмж) If so, why can't I find the correct (I) in it?
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As someone already mentioned, Ты is usually reserved for friends or people you are on informal terms with, and Вы is formal and how you should greet strangers. In addition, вы is the plural form of "you" so even if you are addressing a group of friends, you use вы because there are multiple people. Hope this helps!
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There is no Russian keyboard on Duolingo, you'll have to find one yourself. You can find some good ones in the Discussion section, if you search it.
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Android offers the Russian keyboard, just click the button to the left of the space bar (settings) and select the languages.
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Go to the Russian Discussions and there will be one discussion at the top that will explain how to find a Russian keyboard.
Some times the o letter is pronounced "a" like in это and many other words how do we know when to pronounce it a?
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how do i type the dots above the e? Duolingo accepted "ты актер" but I'd still like to do it correctly, and the e with the dots does not appear to be on my virtual Russian keyboard.
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I have the choice between several keyboards. If I use Russian (not Russian-PC or Russian-phonetic), then I can find this ё.
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Thanks everyone. I think the problem was with the Virtual Keyboard I had on my Chromebook did not have the ё, but now that I finally have a real pc again, the internal virtual keyboard does have ё under the English key, ~.
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Is the only difference between a statement and a question a rise in intonation?
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How to put "Tȳ aktёr?" Correctly? I put some spaces after T, but duo said it was wrong.
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I found it was from my part. When I used my tablet (android 4.4) it showed as "T aktër" and I had no idea what's it really displayed. But now when I used my phone (android 5.01) it showed correctly.
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How do a make the "bl" symbol? I tried using the "s" key but it just wanted to print an "i" All the Russian keyboard templates say to use the "s" key but it is just not working for me... and when I went ahead with the "i" it was putting up, it marked it as wrong... I really want to use the right characters as well
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If you are on an Android phone then install a Russian keyboard. Once you do that, it should be in the middle of ф and в.
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Why do you sometimes use the word в but sometimes not? Like in the sentence if dad is at the subway you use it, but asking if you are an actor you don't use it.
How do i write the tbl? I can find those characters on my russian keyboard
Where do i find the 3rd letter for the 1st word for you are, I seem to not be able to find it
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There is no 3rd letter in the first word, there are only 2 letters.
then how do I type down 'are you an actor' because for me I typed 'tbl aktep' (do not have a Russian keyboard format on my laptop, my apologies) when I check it says I've got the actor translated right and for the 1st word I wasn't able to find anything that resembled bl in one letter for my phone. Am I deluding myself and that it is actually just 'tb' and if yes where can I find this second letter of the the 1st word on a phone's virtual keyboard.
I know it was a while ago that you posted this, but here's an answer;
If you were to write «Ты актер» in Latin characters (our Alphabet), you could write; "Ty aktor". Cyrillic letters don't all look like their Latin equivalents.
It's just like when people write "cyka" (Forgive my profanity), it drives me insane. Since the correct word in Cyrillic is; «сука». Whereas if you were to put it into Latin characters correctly, it would be "suka".
I hope this answers your question. As for why duolingo said that "aktep" is correct, that eludes me.
I can't type in Russian because I don't have a Russian keyboard!!! It won't let me move on, help please
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It just feels so weird using two words to ask if you're something like " YOU ACTOR?". I simply can't help trying to stuff something in between....
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I tried writing Твl but i cant find l required in my russian keyboard. Why ? Its samsung russian keyboard
That's because there is no "l" «в» is a separate letter from «ы». So you should be writing only two letters to make up the word; «Т-ы.»
You don't need it. In most Russian speaking countries 'ё' is only there for the sake of showing pronunciation. In Russia, its acceptable to just put 'e' instead.
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So is there a formal way of asking way asking ARE you an actor? Which includes the ARE. I tried the following but was marked wrong... есть ты актёр
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You don't need to use "есть", in this type of sentences the verb "to be" is implicit.
There are only two letters in the first word; «т» and «ы», you used a Latin "l" with your Cyrillic, which is wrong I'm afraid.
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I typed the russian "Есть вы актёр" and it said I got it wrong even though I typed each word "Are" "you" "an actor"
Because that -is- wrong. In Russian you don't really say; "Are you an Actor?" instead, you'd just go; "You actor?". Meaning that «Ты актер» or «Вы актер» are the correct answers.
Ты is singular, but also informal and should only be used for someone you know well; family or friends perhaps.
Вы is plural and formal. Use this for people you don't really know, or if you're not really sure which one you should use. Better safe than sorry.
If you know French, its sorta like "Tu" and "Vous".
No matter what i type it will not let me past this question.... is there no way to skip?
To proceed you can settle for having a typo and just putting Тв if you don't have that "Bl" key
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shouldnt it be Tvi because Tbı is Tvi if we change letters according to the alphabet.
That letter is not a lower case "В" (In Russian This is: в), and an English "I", but it is rather the Russian letter: "ы"; Which roughly transliterates to the oui sound when Romanized. Of course in this you don't want to type Toui, I think you'd probobly be better off spelling it "Ty" or "Ti".
Hope this helps -РускийДжерманз4Эва
CBNTEP = Sweater. AKTeP = Actor. That means if you want to learn russian then forget english otherwise you will see some jumbled up english capital letters.
