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Because sometimes I find it harder to express myself, lol.
But I'll try to think it is German xD
When I first learned German thirty years ago (wow I feel old writing that), the lack of distinction between present simple and continuous was jarring (though less so than the lack of distinction between present and past perfect). Eventually you just get used to it. I think that will be the least of my issues learning Russian, as everything else is so different from any language I've ever studied before.
In German you can distinguish if you want, only normally people don't:
Ich esse.
Ich bin am Essen.
Most of the time you just add л to the verb root. Сказать becomes сказал(а). The a is for feminine past tense
I was asked to translate to English, wrote "I already am eating" and my translation was not accepted. The official answer was "I already eat." Okay.
Then, I was requested to write in English the translation to: Я уже ем. Tried "I already eat". Now the correct answer was: "I am already eating."
Come on...
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Are you sure it is incorrect? I thought it was just a more emphatic word order (i.e. "You should eat something." "But I already AM eating!")
It is correct technically, but it feels clanky to say. "I already have eaten" also feels the same; "I AM eating already" would be the best word order in my opinion.
Any of those word orders should be marked as correct, though. We aren't trying to learn English, and they all indicate that I understood the Russian words I was translating.
It will be understood but it is grammatically incorrect. You need to keep the pronoun (I) and verb (am) together.
Why do we use ем here and not ест?, I'm not sure what the difference is
That is not correct english unless you are going to refer to something specific about your diet.
"I already eat a healthy" (when someone says to eat healthy food)
"I already eat too much."(when a friend suggests you do not eat enough)
Poppycock, someone with a history of eating disorders could very well make this statement regarding their reconvalescence
Well, yes, but the same is true of "I am already eating." It is natural enough to say: "I am already eating plenty of fruits and vegetables." But it is not natural to say "I am already eating dinner," or "I am already eating the cake - sorry, were you saving it for something?" A native English speaker would say "I am in the middle (of eating) dinner," or "I just ate some of the cake - sorry, were you saving it for something?"
The audio pronounces it as if there is an L between уже and ем. Is there a reason for this?
There is no reason. It's bug of TTS. Maybe it's incorrect reproduction of the sound й (cyr.)/y (lat./IPA) in [ya uʒe yem].
This is an audio recording of a russian lesson but it is in English.
I have been watching movies in Russian to get used to their voice as well.
Pimsleur language lessons really transformed my speaking abilities. I downloaded and play the mp3s on the go. Very useful for pronunciation!
Акцент должен быть на слове ЕМ! Иначе звучит как "Я уже ли" или "Я уже ел".
Download the microsoft or google's keyboards on your phone's app store. Respectively called swiftkey and Gboard. They have the option to install a Russian Keyboard.
Why is "I have already eaten" wrong?I think because of "already",we need to use "have done",am i wrong?Спасибо большое
It should be eating and not eaten because it is in the present and not the past. (Somebody offers you food but you have food in hand.)
For speaking exercises we should be able to allow down the audio to make it easier to understand how to say the words
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Why isn't it я уже ест To denote eating rather than eat?
The thing i did immediately before this one introduced ест as eating, so this one i got wrong bc if it's "I'm already eating" 'eating' is used to denote presently doing it
Alternatively, why doesn't Я уже ем mean "i already ate"? Although i would suppose a third word for 'ate' would make more sense so there'd be a difference between 'eat' and 'ate'
'I already am eating' is the same thing as 'I am already eating' afaik, maybe the difference is the emphasis being on me eating in the first version and on already in the second? I can be wrong though, but this seems to stand to reason to me so I don't know why my answer is not accepted
I exactly even do not know if russian is so complicated. What is in russian the hardest?
Because the letter "e" in Russian generally makes a "ye" sound, while the letter э normally makes an "e" sound - the same way that we in English usually make an "e" sound.
I know you asked this 3 years ago, but I answered just in case anyone else has the same question too :)
Why isn't it я уже в ем? In a previous translation, it made me put в and said it was wrong when I didn't add it, but now it's wrong?
в means in, I don't know which sentence you're referring to, but it probably had a noun instead of a verb after в.
I thought exactly the same! Then I downloaded some russian keypad option on my computer and now type with my keypad on the screen (I hope you understand what I´m trying to say) It´s a little bit more complicated, but it works for me pretty well:)
Yes, go to keyboard settings on your phone, add Russian, and thereafter youll be able to swipe the space bar to toggle between English and Russian.
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Why is is excuse me is it already evening not excuse me it is already evening
What exactly does уже mean? Can the word change its meaning depending on the sentence you use it in?
уже is generally "already," (or in negative sentences, "no longer"), but sometimes it's used for emphasis in a way that doesn't translate exactly into English. But really even in those circumstances you could think of it as "already." The meaning would be obvious, but it wouldn't sound very natural in English. So basically, I'd stick with a default of "already."
Я means I am as a literal translations. уже means already. And ем means to eat. Like the romance languages( not Portuguese) and slavic languages have words have a normal form and a conjugated form but this is just looking for a loose but strict translation.... The structure must be correct but the terms do not have to be conjugated. In spanish it is like comer versus come. Comer means to eat but come means he/she eats. Later more letters at the end will be added or changed to specify feminine or masculine. Take all of this with a grain of salt for I am not an expert but this is what I have experienced. If you want more information contact a professor at a local university or local schools that have russian classes. Google here is also your friend......
P.S. Notice I di not say that Google translate was your friend. It is the reason my Spanish homework is always wrong....
Oh come on can you just use the common one? I'm super confused with that
I should imagine it means the most used or colloquial usage. I know that what Duolingo/Google . Babbel etc give as correct can sometimes be somewhat stiff though grammatically correct. My Russian friends give me different versions ...the more colloquial ones.
Well, this is about as straightforward as it gets. I'm not sure what "more common" expression there is. I guess you might hear Я уже кушаю in some places.
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I agree with you. There are some threads that could be closed now as they have been answered. All it does is 'bung up ' the inbox...annoying.
We dont say I am already eating. I guess, you mughr say tgat if you are actually in the process of eating while soneone offers you something to eat... I guess it just feels clumsy.
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