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"Whom do you see?"
Translation:Кого вы видите?
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I'd add that it works with the case endings of nouns, adjectives, pronounces and numbers, that is the most frequent situation. For example, here we have the accusative form of the word "кто" (who) - "кого" (whom). But we also have several words that are pronounced with the normal Г (like "g" in "grass"), such as:
- Много [MNOH-gah] - many/much
- Дорого [DOH-rah-gah] - it's expensive
- Строго [STROH-gah] - strictly
2578
Definitely in formal writing and speaking, but a lot of Americans would say "who" here (incorrectly, but the incorrect usage is very pervasive).
1249
Okay I'll report it then, because my answer has been marked as incorrect. Thank you.
1249
Would a native speaker really use "Кого ты видишь?" MORE often than "Кого видишь"? The second one sounds more natural to my Slovak ear but then again, there are some major differences between Slovak and Russian in terms of syntax.. Thank you :)
It used to be pronounced -ogo and -ego. In Polish they're still pronounced thatway.
By the way, Russian is very far from "completely phonetic". In comparison with English, yes, it's more phonetic (that's not hard), but in general there are quite a lot of extra-rules, assimilations, final devoicing, silent letters, stress influencing the pronunciation of vowels, etc. etc. I'd say Russian is quite far away from being called phonetic.