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"He has such delicious apples!"
Translation:У него такие вкусные яблоки!
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It is because many apples. Mainly because of that. Apple itself is neutral, but we are talking about plurals.
752
what case is apples in to get this ending. Isn't o replaced with a for nominative and accusative plural?
968
I thought so, too. Google Translate says that both "яблока" and "яблоки" translate as "apples."
752
Well the nominative plural is яблоки so I’m thinking maybe the spelling rules apply to neutral words that end in го,ко,хо,жо, чо, шо and що . Maybe when they form a nominative plural we have the o replaced with и instead of a.
752
I will try to explain. The 3rd person personal pronouns ( her eë, his eго, their их) in any case , add H at their beginning when they occur after a preposition including у . For example, У Него есть чемодан, He has( by him there is) a suitcase . You have to differentiate third person personal pronouns from possessive pronouns however like his brother. Possessive pronouns never change after a preposition. For example, у его брата есть чемодан. His brother has( by his brother there is) a suitcase. I hope this is helpful.
404
Here, the English phrasing is a little difficult. The most natural way would be to have the exercise demand 'His apples are so delicious'. Generally, you are to omit есть from any phrase where the 'having' is natural or inherently connected to the owner. For example, you probably have a nose (if not, I'm sorry, they're great), so I'll tell you 'У тебя нос', you have a nose. But the есть is not there, because surprise surprise, people have noses in general. If you were a collector of noses, a есть would be used.
674
But ... "так" modifies "вкусные" ... in the adverbial sense of so/very/really. You neither decline "очень"... So why?
Why яблоки and not яблока? Edit: turns out the plural is irregular. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%8F%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE
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What is the difference between вкусные and вкусное, why it is not У него такие вкусное яблоки?