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As a native English speaker i think the translation given "you think i know everything?" is not correct. It should be "Do you think I know everything?"
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Maybe where you live, but I'm also a native English speaker, and where I live, there's nothing wrong with this translation. Leaving "do" out can give the question a slightly different connotation, depending on the tone of voice.
Yep right but we are learning basics, and that would be nice to learn them correctly even if IRL it is correct/understandable. If we have to guess the context of dualingo also!! This also could be a question to yourself: Think, am I remembering everything? Or do I know everything ? About... I don't mind learning proper then colloquial thank you
Yes it is, because the verb tells us which person we are referring to. It's the same in Spanish. :)
Yes, but in Brazil we normally use the pronoun: Você acha que eu sei tudo? The same question without "você" sounds very odd to me.
Actually English Vernacular does this too "Do you want to/a go?" -> "Wanna go?"
No, we put a comma even with "что": Думаешь, что я всё знаю? This is a complex sentence, and you have to put a comma between its parts.
I was taught in class that it was both. I think it's supposed to be Я думаю, что Я, Ты, Вы, etc. But that's all I know.
Why isn't что used here after the comma? I read somewhere that что should always always always always always be used and never never never omitted as "that" in English, as in "do you think (that) I know everything?".
It is strange. Because there are many cases when one could omit что in complex sentences. Where did you read that?
As far as I know a lot of English speakers and even professional writers omit 'that' in way you used it.
I got marked wrong with "Think, do I know everything?". Is this English weird, or would this meaning be translated differently in Russian?
English lesson: A word-for-word translation into English would be "Think, I everything know?" To the native English-speaker, this looks like a mess. To start out a sentence with the base verb followed by a comma could colloquially be interpreted as a command, but it's supposed to have a semicolon instead of a comma because "think" by itself is in the imperative, and, therefore, an independent clause. But in Russian, "Думаешь?" means "Do you think?", NOT "Think.". So after putting the object and verb in standard English order, we're left with "Do you think, (do I know everything / I know everything)?" It's easy to think that "я всё знаю" is the question because it's the correct way to say both "Do I know everything?" AND "I know everything." in Russian. But since "думаешь" came first, we can safely assume that the person being questioned is "you," and not "I". So we're left with "Do you think, I know everything?" The comma is necessary in Russian, but it would be incorrect in English because "I know everything" is the object of "think" (what "you" are thinking). So that's how we arrive at "Do you think I know everything?" Yes, I know, English is a logical, insane, stupid, sophisticated, simple, and complicated language. That's why I'm here learning alternatives.
I suppose it makes literal sense in a context where someone is talking to themselves, though in that context it doesn't make much practical sense (you would never say that to yourself, I guess).
In any case, the verb "to think" here is in the ты form (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian), indicating that your version should be "You think, do I know everything?" which is quite Yoda-like and would feel more natural as "do you think I know everything?".
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In that case "think" seems to be used as the imperative form of the verb, so the Russian translation should correspond to that by having the verb "думать" conjugated likewise, in imperative, but I'm not sure if its imperative form is different from "думаешь"...
Думаешь is a word that implies a 2nd-person, (i.e. ты что думаешь? ты знаешь? ты пьешь? Note how they end with -ешь), so I think it is important to include 'you' as in 'you think....’
I felt lost without having a "do" available to begin the English translation.
Both are correct, but they say всё знаю do we gotta learn what they do say and accept that fact)
No, you can make them a remark, that you think your answer should be right. It is not a fault, if they accept what's right.
Is there a rule that allows the omission of "you" from the Russian sentence? When are we allowed to omit a subject?
"You think i know everything" is not really a question in english. People talk like this, but it is not really considered proper english for the punctuation to be a question mark...so should it end with a period or should the sentence be changed to "DO you think i know everything"?
думаешь ending with ешь which is for the word ты , the sentence may write ты думаешь, я всё знаю? , this is what i guess i need suggestion too
You think I know everything? As translated, in correct answer section is wrong. it should be advised as: You think, Do I Know everything? or as it is translated in above topic " "Думаешь, я всё знаю?" Translation: Do you think that I know everything? "please make a correction in reply answer. Thank you
So the word Думаешь means Think, like it says upon clicking the word, but adding the я всё знаю with a "?" translate думаешь to, do you think? If that made sense
This sentence translates literally as "You think, I everything know?". Why is this sentence ordered like this?
In the "word picker" there is a "Do" missing. I had to write: "You think that I know everything?"
Why not say ты думаешь? Because the last 3 words reminds me of the corresponding conjugation for the word
