"Нам надо нарезать грибы для салата."
Translation:We need to slice mushrooms for the salad.
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Would it be correct to put "we need to slice mushrooms for salad" here? I put this as an answer (without an article preceding salad as in the suggested solutions) and was marked wrong.
Me too. I'm a native speaker of English and I think this is perfectly fine to omit the article.
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Leaving out the article, to me, sounds a bit odd. If you're preparing food for a particular salad, it makes sense to use "a" or "the" as it's specific to that salad.
Possibly a regional thing? I'm from the Western US and "we need to slice (up) mushrooms for salad" would be totally natural in a wide range of cases.
English has bee my native language for over 40 years now. It would be perfectly normal to say " we need to slice mushrooms for salad." This would be used if you are not referring to any particular salad. The sentence is desiginating the mushrooms specifically for salad and no other uses.
the Russian lessons are becoming tough now, I can't get to remember the vocabulary and grammar rules
Dont worry. Russians tell me they must take 10 years of Russian grammar, and they dont remember any of it! I like Duo because after a while, a lot starts to sound right. Grammar books give tables difficult to remember and very few examples. So here you learn the natural way, except this is easy for kids, not so much for adults. So we get this section, and helps with explanations.
It doesn't help that many times the exact meaning is lost in English because it doesn't have declensions/cases or whatever they are called
Для, for the purpose and на for/specifically. Chopping mushrooms for the purpose of topping this salad vs buying ice-cream just for dessert
I am not a native Russian but i grew up there and spoke it has a child. Back then i used them interchangably and now i am not sure of the difference. I will be inquiring with my russian friends.
why для here and not на? is there any consistent logic in choosing between the two?
на is more like on, or in sometimes. It's related to location. для is "for," and I think it's more related to purpose.
You're not preparing mushrooms on the salad or at the salad, you're preparing them for the purpose of the salad. So для is used.
Don't quote me on this, though.
i think it's accusative- we are doing something to (slicing) the mushrooms, so they are the direct object
It's important to note, however, that because гриб is an inanimate noun, its accusative declination is identical to its nominative one, i.e. грибы is used in both the nominative-plural and accusative-plural cases.
Why is it that "i want to cook soup for lunch" uses "на обед" (as for a previous exercise) but " we need to slice mushrooms for salad" uses "дла салата"? It seems the same... doing some task for a purpose.
Why does the stress sound on the first syllable (ГРИ-бы)? Is it not on the second (Гри-БЫ)?
When is нам used instead of мы? Is there a clear and concise website with all the different variations explained? Thanks in advance.
I think that "we need to slice up mushrooms for (the/a) salad" should be accepted here. Where I'm from, that would be the much more common way to say it.
i'm pretty sure you just use whichever personal pronoun in the dative case. so I=мне, you=тебе, he=ему, she=ей, we=нам, you(pl)=вам, and they=им
I can't believe I got this right, with one minor misspelling, not even knowing what the sentence meant....
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I keep answering "we need to slice the mushrooms for salad" and the app just keep repeating the same question, that's annoying. I don't like to guess other people's mind.
".... the mushrooms for the salad_?"
plus, you can always ask your answer to be accepted -- may not accept it for you... but for the future...(?)
грибы in this case would be nominative plural or accusative plural? I suppose it would be nominative plural, because it's the subject of the setence. I am right?
I tried "we need tonslice those mushrooms for the salad" was wrong, but pretty close tho!