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I am slightly confused with this construction. If ничего already means nothing, why is the нет needed afterwards. My instinct would be to consider that a double negative and to therefore mean something is on the plate.
Russian do use double negative and the sentence is still negative Я ничего не видел (i've seen nothing) Я ничего не знаю (i know nothing)
Hmmm. "Nothing is on the plate" has the same meaning for me in English, but isn't accepted. "There's" is sort of unnecessary.
Same, I can guess that each question has a prescribed list of accepted answers and that simply wasn't put in even though it's the exact same meaning.
ничего́ (ničevó) [nʲɪt͡ɕɪˈvo] "nothing; so-so; no problem!": Genitive form of ничто́ (ništó, "nothing", which is rarely used), from ни (ni, “not”) + что́ (štó, “what”).
Isn't a bowl миска? I know it's not a common word, though.
And is there even a difference between a dish and a plate? Are you sure тарелка и блюдо are not just synonyms?
It depends on the context. We rarely say "миска супа", rather "тарелка супа". "Миска" makes me think about cooking (and using bowls for storing chopped ingredients or mixing something) or about pets (кошкина миска = the cat's bowl).
There are also phrases:
глубокая тарелка = deep plate = bowl
мелкая тарелка = "shallow" or flat plate = plate
Someone can tell me how to pronounce го from ничего correctly. It really sounds different from the Google Translator.
It's just an historical pronunciation thing. You just learn it and that's all, nothing logical behind it. Чего = Chevo, Него = Nevo, etc.
When a word ends with -его or with -ого, the «г» is pronounced as the regular «в» Russian sound or the “V” English sound.
"On the plate there is nothing" is a word-for-word translation and it has the same meaning.
On the plate there is nothing, is more literal translation but it was not accepted.
I read somewhere that the г in words that spell -его and -ого are pronounced as V but I think I hear it as nichego here, am I the only one?
I was going to ask for "The plate does not have anything", but I already understood my mistake. Nonetheless, I'd love to have some feedback from the comunity, please, so here I am.
Спасибо.
