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- "У меня есть лошадь."
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That's #FakeNews!!! Your picture is photoshopped! Here is tye original one:
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/855/125/fe7.jpg
Remember, Ivan. When ride horse, you must see horse. You must feel horse. You must BE horse.
I suspect that ManuelJess926043 is referring to the /t/ sound at the end. I can't express the rule exactly (Shady_arc could do that), but often (always?) a д at the end of a word sounds like /t/.
Hope that helps.
Ah. Before a pause or an unvoiced consonant, all voiced consonants are pronounced the same as their unvoiced counterparts (Б, В, Г, Д, Ж, З become П, Ф, К, Т, Ш, С).
An analogy can be drawn. This is similar to how the -ed ending of a verb is always spelt the same, but still is pronounced differently in "booked" and "stayed". And if you are a speaker of German, you do not need any analogy whatsoever ;)
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The analogy I've always used was the plural '-s' endings of nouns, which are voiced unless following /f/, /k/, /p/, or /t/ sounds. For comparison: coughs, cakes, caps, and cats have /s/; while coves, cogs, cabs, cods, cans, combs, calls, cars, and cafés have /z/.
I think it's about the "ш" shouldn't it sound like "sh" instead of "kh"?
It should, so it does. It does not sound like an English "sh" in "shampoo", though.
I'm having huge problems with the onset sound, which reads as l but seems to be pronounced as I-don't-know-what.
I agree. I actually was wondering if I heard "пл" which makes it a totally different word.
I was sleepy when I heard it for the first time and wrote the comment, that's why I did not say what I did not understand xD
I hear a vowel before the "л", and the "a" sounds to me like an "e".
Is there an etymologyc reason why лошадь and плошадь are that similar? Or just a coincidence?
It's a coincidence. In fact, they don't even seem all that similar for a native speaker. Though, after it was pointed out in this thread, I can see what people are talking about.
Btw, it's "площадь", not "плошадь"; "щ" and "ш" are different letters.
English is the only language I know that changes the word order depending on whether you are making a question or not.
"Мой" is a possessive pronoun meaning "my" - to be precise, the masculine nominative form. "Меня" is the genitive case form of "я", meaning "I". The preposition "у" requires genitive case.
I am wondering about the pronunciation of the fittest letter. To me it sounds like a w, where i expected an l
Russian л does not sound much like an English L (though it sounds similar to "l" in "wheel").
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Thanks. That helps with my confusion about what was going on here. I thought I knew the word so when given the type what you hear question I was sure it wasn't Russian for horse.
What is wrong to say I have the horse? When would you say I have the horse?
