"Ты ешь рис?"
Translation:Do you eat rice?
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Does the audio on this one sound particularly garbled to anyone else? The individual words sound alright, but the full question sounds almost incomprehensible to me.
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I've noticed that Russians knit their words together when they speak, just like the British do for English, so it may sound weird when certain words are next to each other. (As in, they don't have the minute pauses, that are quite common in American English, between each word.)
Edit: Though, having listened again, it does sound as if the inflection doesn't agree between words on the audio for this sentence.
I mean to say it sounds like there are artifacts in the sound file, not that it is going too fast.
Ешь is the 2nd person familiar form of the verb. See Wiktionary for a full conjugation table - https://goo.gl/FbLfQa
Ok, thanks, because i was getting tired of learning like 20 different ways to say the word "eat" in Russian, and I was wondering why I had to learn yet another one.
Simple; the question is asking as a generalization, i.e, "(In general) Do you eat rice?", and not, "Are you (currently) eating rice?" I hope I explained that well.
I apologize because this may be a more general question, but perhaps not irrelevant: Could someone tell me how we differenciate betwen …ш + consonant and …шь+ consonant please? Here "ешь рис" for example I cannot hear the phonetic difference, and I face the same problem with т/ть ("есть брат" / "ест хлеб").
Here's the conjugation of есть.
http://masterrussian.com/verbs/est_sest.htm
This link can also show you other verbs.
An incredibly easy sentence that I find very difficult to say. Phonetically: Tvoi Yesh reese?
Ты, not Твой.
It's not that tough, but I think the text-to-speech on this one is really bad.
Listen to it on Yandex translator, it sounds more natural - https://goo.gl/AxHGd3
Of course I do! Bengalis do! And I have been living like a Bengali for the past few days- language, food etc.
