- Forum >
- Topic: Russian >
- "I am not at home."
"I am not at home."
Translation:Я не дома.
25 Comments
Why is "Я не в дома" not correct? Wouldn't it be "I (not) at home"? What is the difference between "Я не в дома" and "Я не дома" which should be "I (not) home"? Are both not correct?
Well, it's pretty straightforward. «Дом» means house, home; «дома» is a different, but related word, which means "at home".
Я не дома — I'm not at home.
Я не в доме — I'm not in the house.
I must add that the latter is a bit odd, but possible in situations like «Я в Доме культуры.»
1539
How about "Я не на дома"? Is it incorrect?
I later tried that in Yandex and it translates to "I'm not at home".
okay, I'm just thinking what would I say just in case if someone ask me: are you house? So I would say: я не дом Is that correct
Because the accent is on the last syllable. Therefore the O is unstressed and gets pronounced as A
- 90
You would use дома "at home" to say I'm not at home and в доме "in the house" to say I'm not in the house; I'm out in the yard.
First of all, many thanks on replaying to me. Secondly, Can I conclude from you that "в доме" leans toward the strict location of the house, and "дома" means the general sense of home, whether it's a house or a town or a country?
No need to use a Genitive here, why should you? That's only to say "I have" but here it's "I am". So it's just accusative.
- 757
After на the next word has to be accusative (дом) or prepositional (доме), so the word ending would be wrong. Also на доме would mean on the house.
