"Где можно курить?"
Translation:Where am I allowed to smoke?
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I personally know that word because my dad always asks me to buy cigarettes from Russia when I go there. It is 5 times cheaper than in Belgium. The message that is written in the box is курение убивает (smoking kills).
@Kevinguy14, if is it so, try googling: "cigarro mensagens" , you will be totally pleased with what every cigarrette pack in brazil looks like in the back!
I especially like the one with the long drooping ash and it says something like: fumar causa impotência. LOL.
Here in Mexico the boxes of cigarettes depict things like premature newborns and dead rats.
They're really creppy.
In the U.S. there is a required warning about cancer and death and so on. Plus a sin tax.
Have you seen Australian cigarette boxes? Google it if you feel like some nightmares.
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Is the "am I" part strictly true? I feel that asking "Where am I allowed to smoke?" and "Where is smoking allowed?" are very different. I.e. One indicates the speaker is a smoker, the other does not.
Exactly, for example the first one with "am I" would indicate that the speaker... and the other may be asking that he wants to get away from the smoking area.
The translation "Where is it allowed to smoke?" doesn't make sense. It implies there is some outside object (not a person) that is requesting a place to smoke.
The translations, I believe, should be,
"Where can one smoke?"
"Where is one allowed to smoke?"
Not so. In this case, "It" is simply there to provide a subject just like "It is raining". "It is allowed." "Smoking is allowed". Just like "Where is it possible to smoke?"
We could also consider that it as the kind of abstract construction we use with allowed some times, eg, Why can't I do x? Because it's not allowed.
I hate how duolingo teaches you nothing about the proper grammer of a language but still tests you on it
I can't see the "I" in this sentence. So "Where smoking is allowed?" should be accepted, but it's not accepted.
Does this mean that, in Russian, "may" works as an adverb, and when asking permission you use the infinitive?
(If so, how do you ask permission on someone else's behalf, like if you're at a party and you want to know "can my brother come too?")
Можно мой брат тоже придет/ Можно я позову брата/ Могу я позвать брата/ Может мой брат придти
I was given the option to choose between three forms of курить. Is this just the correct answer because it needs to be the infinitive?
No, because in English that sounds like a noun phrase rather than a complete question.
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Not correct translation "Where am I allowed to smoke?". More precise is: "Где я могу покурить?" или "Где мне можно покурить?". Phrase "Где можно курить"? " should be translated like: "Where is it allowed to smoke?".
But i strongly recommend that you do not use transliteration, but rather the true cyrillic alphabet.
The reason this wouldn't be accepted is because of the English translation. That sentence doesn't work in English. It sounds like you probably get the Russian meaning just fine, but for Duolingo to work, the English sentences should in theory make sense also. There are a number of ways I might say this:
Where is one allowed to smoke? Where is it permitted to smoke? Where may one smoke? Where is smoking allowed? Where is smoking permitted?
But in English, we'd never say "Where is allowed..." You MIGHT be able to say "Where is it allowed to... " but even that is a tiny bit awkward.
Shouldn't there be an "I" (я) or something on the russian sentence? The way it's written looks more like "where is it allowed to smoke" instead of "where am 'I' allowed to smoke".
Not really, no. One thing you'll learn about languages is that things don't always translate literally. Russian and English are very different languages, so they're going to use different constructions for a lot of things. That's one of the harder parts of learning languages, having to learn how things are supposed to be written when they don't translate word for word.
In this case the Russian sentence seems to be more general. Another way to translate it could be "Where are you allowed to smoke?" with the you being more general, or "Where is one allowed to smoke?" Perhaps the most literal way to translate it would be "Where is smoking allowed?"
I'm not sure if any of those translations are currently accepted, but they should be appropriate translations regardless.
i was thinking the same. consider that the given verb is in infinitive form rather than 1ps. i just wondered is it a fixed phrase for 1ps or could be applied generally. looks like the latter has it right.
Also can someone explain how to differently pronounce курить and курит?
Где можно курить? This really translates to Where can I smoke? Doesn’t it? Where is the word allowed? To be more precise, should Duolingo not be including the word ‘разрешено’?
