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- "Дайте, пожалуйста, коробку."
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Where is the 'me' in the russian phrase? Why is 'Could you pass the box please' not correct?
Дайте = give me. So the phrase means "give me please the box" in literal
The 'me' is not needed, it can be dropped when you say "Дайте". However, you could say "Дайте мне" and it would still be correct.
Give me please the box should be accepted, I think. But I am not a native english speaker, so it may not be correct at all. I just feel it is, even if the word order is special and unusual.
If you keep the commas, you can definitely say "Give me, please, the box". It would function like an independent clause because the sentence still makes sense if you were to remove ",please," entirely.
The sentence might take on a more authoritative emphasis, though. Sort of like, "give me the box, or else!" It's a little weird but I'm pretty certain it is grammatically allowed, provided the commas are there.
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"Give me, please, the box" is poor English syntax (word order). "Please give me the box" or "Give me the box, please" are good syntax.
Duo doesn't care about commas, so they should accept my answer, according to that!
Lol, if it counts for anything, I reported that they should accept my answer because I said the same thing!
the only constructions that work here are "please give me the box" and "give me the box please" it wouldn't be correct for please to go in the middle of the phrase
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But "please give me the box" is marked wrong. Normally, I wouldn't say "pass me a box" -- that's more for things like salt, mashed potatoes etc. and balls. (I'm a native speaker of English and an English teacher.)
Damn, well Russian put it in the middle, and that's where I'd like to put it in english! Damn russian-english differences! :(
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Give me the box please is the correct english way. It cannot be in third position as you wrote.
The 'me' should be forced. It's implied in English too. Could you pass the box please.
Oh my God! Sometimes this strange male robot voices it so funny!
"Дайте, пожалуйста, Коробку́." Ha-ha, Mr. Korobók! (the correct accent: "Дайте, пожалуйста, коро́бку")
"Please give/allow/punch to (Mr.) Box ..."
In Russian, it requires about this continuation:
Please allow (Mr.) Box to make a toast!
Please, punch (Mr.) Box in the eye! :)
Is it possible to switch to a female voice? It talk a little less nonsense.
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I am a native speaker of Russian and I see countless mistakes, especially stress on the wrong syllable. I have been reporting the mistakes but no changes have been made so far.
Уважаемые англоговорящие. Пожалуйста сверяйте произношение русских слов на Duolingo с другими источниками, потому что здесь оно ужасное и в лучшем случае вызывает приступы нервного смеха. Удачи в познании великого и могучего!
"Pass me the box the please" surely makes a better translation. Either that, or include a question mark at the end.
Should accept "Hand me the box please". I know it's not the literal translation, but it's a common variant and to some English speakers it's a less course way of asking for something than "give me".
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"handing" is one form of giving, but not all. But then, if Duo is allowing "pass me", "hand me" should be allowed also, because that's exactly what "pass me" means.
In the sentense it is seen that it is a request as a question, and if so, the corrected answer does not see the question mark, I do not why.
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As i understand it, "дай" is the informal "ты" conjugation. "Дайте" is the formal/plural "вы" conjugation. And i guess "мне" is usually dropped in this phrase.
Неправильное ударение. Надо "корОбку" вот корОбка, нет корОбки, вижу корОбку, даю корОбку, думаю о корОбке, любуюсь корОбкой
Its not correct. I am half russian and "give me please the box" should be corrected.
Putting please in the middle of the sentence sounds rather odd in English.
It's implied - a too-literal translation of the Russian sounds a little peculiar in English.
I disagree somewhat. "Pass me the box, please" sounds perfectly fine to me.
A literal translation would be "give me please the box", which does not sound fine.
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Theres no question mark, how can it be a question? Does Duolingo even read some of these exercises?
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"Give me a box please" or "pass me the box please" should be accepted. I reported this exercise for the fact that for the statement in Russian, it is translated into a question in English. I'm back to this comment later...
You did not show the question mark. How I supose to know that is a question?
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Представленный перевод больше соответствует русскому: "Могли бы вы подать/передать мне коробку?"
Дайте, пожалуйста, коробку - Please give me the box (но этот перевод не принимается :(
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Pass me the box please is grammaticly correct. However, unless you are seated at a table with people, and there is a box there whIch you are hoping to eat, NO ONE IS GOING TO SAY PASS ME THE BOX.
Is Дай(те) the common, acceptable, polite way to ask for things to be physically given to you?
Yes it is with please. You can also say more polite Не могли бы Вы дать мне коробку, пожалуйста (Не мог бы ты... / Не могла бы ты...)
"Me" is implied in the Russian sentence, but (usually) required in English.
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"Could you pass me the box, please?" - Не могли бы вы передать мне коробку, пожалуйста? "Дайте, пожалуйста, коробку." - "Give me the box, please." Не стыдно админам и модерам за кривизну, не так ли ?
"Could you please give me that box" was my translation and it was "wrong". What YOU accept as correct is, your expectations, is over the top. Both English and Polish native speaker here btw. You are wasting people's time by making them retest over and over because they have put words in a different order or forgot an "article". It's ridiculous. I also used to be fluent in Russian as a child, so it's coming back very quickly to me.
"That box" would be эта коробка, and I believe the sentence would become дайте пожалуйста эту коробку.
Forgetting an article is a mistake in English.
Не правильное поставленное ударение коробку, она должно стоять на 2 позиции.
Doesn't "Could" imply the presence of "Можете" in Russian? What am I missing? The russian frase ends in a full stop why does the translation end in a question mark?
Word for word/literal translations don't necessarily carry the same meaning as the original.
коро́бка• (koróbka)
IPA: [kɐˈropkə]
"box, case; gearbox"
Noun: f inan (genitive коро́бки, nominative plural коро́бки, genitive plural коро́бок)
From Old East Slavic коробка (korobka), from Proto-Slavic *korbъka, *korbъ (“basket”) + *-ъka.
*korbъ was possibly an early borrowing from Germanic (whence German Korb, Danish and Norwegian kurv), in turn a borrowing from Latin corbis (see corbis for further etymology).
Equivalent to коро́б (korób) + -ка (-ka).
Source: Wiktionary
Дайте translates "give" not [pass], if you're going to use idioms, at least let us know before hand
Notice the sentence it wants you to translate is a statement, not a question. But the answer is a question. I saw no question mark! And many people say this. Why add "me?" English has many exceptions and rules but you don't have to add "me."
What's the difference in Дайте or Дайте мне. If non then is correct the Дайте тебя???
In english when you ask someone to give, you always say "give me" or "give her/him/them", in russian you dont have to include - me, which is мне, only when you want to highlight to whom you want the box to be given. Дайте тебя is a bit meaningless, unless you want to say something like saying someone "give yourself", but in that case you would say дайте себя
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"коро́бку"(from коро́бка)= the box "коробку́"(from коробо́к) = matchbox, small box The wrong stress makes it into a wrong word in russian.
Could you please give me the box? isn't accepted..... WTF? It's actual English and exactly the same as the "answer"
Wouldn't "me" be the accusative aspect of this sentence? (You (nominative)) give me (accusative) the box (instrumental)
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Why not "Give me, please, the box"? Isn't it possible to have the word order like this in English? To emphasize the "please"?
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If you actually said that you would probably get strange looks, unless you had a thick foreign accent. Would you please give me the box works for emphasis. However, the Russian sentence here is a statement, not a question.
