"No, our offices are not here."
Translation:Нет, наши офисы не здесь.
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This may have been covered somewhere (so I may delete this comment after searching), but what is the difference between using genitive or nominative here? наших офисов здесь нет Vs. наши офисы не здесь.
I think genitive stresses the absence while nominative stresses the location (not here), but I'm not sure. Thanks for the help.
The intensity of this course just skyrocketed... Half these words and sentences I don't even know unless I click on the translation, and because I'm clicking on the translation I'm not remembering anything.
There's a DuoLingo companion course on memrise.com that focuses on building vocabulary. Check it out. http://www.memrise.com/course/378212/duolingo-russian-full-audio/
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Why couldn't you also use Вот? My russian friend said Вот is if you are pointing at something and здесь is more general but how are we supposed to know the difference from this?
you are unlikely to point at the empty space saying "Where our offices are is right over not here, before your very eyes". Seriously, «вот» does not work here :)
In this course a sentence starting with a "Here is ..." is a sure sign of вот.
The literal meaning of "here" (this place) is perfectly expressed by здесь or тут (the latter a bit more colloquial, but generally they are nearly interchangeable outside set expressions).
Can anyone tell me why it's "наши офисы"? I thought if something is 'absent',so to speak, it goes into the genitive?
Не здесь is saying "not here", instead of the absence of something. Нету наших офисов would be correct if you were saying that there wasn't any of our offices.
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duolingo is inconsistent on this, having a lot of sentences about the use of genitive for 'not here' rather than proper absence.
Technically this is correct. But nobody says that :) In such negative sentences "находятся" is always skipped :)
So in an affirmative construction would it be stylistically acceptable? Like "Да, наши офисы находятся здесь"?
I would never construct a sentence like "our offices located in here" in English. So why you're making your life difficult :)
Нас is the accusative/genitive form of мы; mostly, it translates to "us" whereas мы is "we."
Наш and наши both mean "our," but наши is used for plurals: Наш стол = "our table" Наши столы = "our tables"
Similarly, наша and наше are used for feminine and neutral nouns, respectively: Наша кошка = "our cat" Наше яблоко = "our apple"
Shouldn't the plural of офис be офиса since it is masculine or is it irregular?
A regular plural of consonant-ending masculine nouns ends in ы (or и):
- отец → отцы
- стол → столы
- шкаф → шкафы
- мальчик → мальчики
- холодильник → холодильники
- лифт → лифты
- велосипед → велосипеды
However, quite a number of popular nouns use the stressed А ending. Some nouns experience a shift to this form even as we speak, so the list might grow over decades. For example, it is really hard for me to pluralize ве́ктор into ве́кторы, not вектора́. I know that the dictionary says ве́кторы but ... I majored in physics and I am now all to used to the other, slang-ish form not recognized in the standard language (it is recognized as professional slang). Same with сервер and драйвер.
Нет means "NO" also its used possessive "у меня нет карандашa" = " i don't have pencil" . "Не" is used as "don't" or "aren't" in sentences
Вот is used point at an object or introduce it. This use is fairly similar to the English "Here is(are) ... " structure, like in "Here are a couple examples"="Вот пара примеров"
Здесь and тут are adverbs that mean "here" (i.e., in this place). Там means "there" (at that place).
нет наши офисы не вот...
hmm... sounds a little madness
типо... ты чё, ваще не алё?
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Shouldn't this be correct??
Нет, наши офисы не тут
I thought тут and здесь were synonyms?
