"Нет, она не здесь."
Translation:No, she is not here.
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Sounds a lot like she's saying 'Anna is not here'. How am I meant to tell the difference?
Syllabic stress for Она is on the second syllable, for Анна it's on the first syllable. Also just gotta keep an ear out for context, you'd know from conversation if they were talking about Anna or just "her" in general.
The audio stresses the "o" rather than the appropriate "a", which also made me think it was saying "Анна" rather than "она".
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If the accent does not fall in the O, it is pronounced as an A. Why? Only Russians know.
Why?
Because it's easier to pronounce. It's not really "о" as "а", but rather all unstressed vowels are pronounces a sort of schwa sound that it closer to "а" then to "о". Essentially, we simply don't bother enunciating unstressed vowels. In fact pronouncing "о" as "о" is not really a mistake and won't change the meaning (in fact there are some Russian accents that do that), but it would sound weird and like you are "trying too hard" for most native speakers.
Thats what i heard too... анна ... but i guess its practicing what the app expects, i didnt realise дима was a name until i used this app
It is not right, the accent has to be on the a, so it would be phonetically: aná.
Yes, only stressed O is pronounced like an english O. All others take on an english "ah" sound
Hello, I am very new at Russian language, but have already seen similar questions. I understand нет is "No", at the beginning of sentence, не is "not" in the middle. In spanish or portuguese is the same work ("no", or "não"), but in French I would say нет is "Non", and не is "ne ___ pas". In German нет is "Nein" and не is "nicht". Is that confusing enough??!! kkkk
Close but you can easily put нет in the middle or end of a sentence and retain the meaning (in that case, it would be comparable to "kein" in German), as in У меня нет книг or У меня книги нет (I don't have any books or I don't have the book).
edit: Actually you could even use it at the end of the sentence in this ... sentence, as well (instead of Она не здесь you could simply say Ее нет).
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If I understand correctly, здесь means "is here", and Вот means "Here is". But I'm a beginner so don't count on me.
What would a phonetic write up of здесь look like? I'm having trouble finding one online and that does a lot to aid my pronunciation
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It's pronounced kinda like zdyEHss. The "eh" part is like "ai" in "air." The s sound should be soft. Hope this helped :)
What is the difference between вот and здесь? I'm sorry if I sound stupid or if this is already answered but it seems to me that both mean the same and I don't know if these are synonyms or if they're used for different things.
How do I know when e is pronounced simply as e and when it is pronounced as ye, as in Nyet?
Well, in Russian we don't separate consonants from vowels when pronounce them. So if there is "И, Е, Ё, Ю, Я" after the consonant you pronounce it softer (with some exceptions).
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ANna vs onA. It's all in the stressed syllables, you have to keep an ear out for those :)
Там = here Вот = here/this, use when pointing at the subject Здесь = this as in "this place" Did i understand right?? I'm a bit confused ^^;
A little off. Там = there, Здесь = here, and Вот is sort of a declarative, like the French "Voila!". It doesn't exactly refer to a location in its simplest form.
How do I spell "zdes`" (here in Russian) in English? I keep getting it incorrect
In a lot of translit systems you'd use the apostrophe to denote a soft sign, like zdes' but DuoLingo doesn't like that for some reason. I've found that 9 times out of 10 you can omit it altogether and write zdes, at which point the program will accept your answer but tell you there was a typo in it.
Mostly memorization. Sometimes you can learn patterns and rules, though. For instance the prefix "от-" (like in the word "отходить") is usually never (if ever) stressed, so you know if a word starts with the sound "ought", then it's gonna be от.
Or if the stem is spelled with o's then you know any words formed with that are gonna be spelled with o's too. For instance, the word СПОсоб becomes споСОБный (capital letters are stressed). Even though the stress changes the stem will most likely stay the same.
Certain endings, too (like "ично" in "логично") will end in an O when it's used as an adverb, though be careful since it could be логична if it is being used as a short form adjective for a feminine word.
I hope that helps!
"No, It's not here" is not accepted
automatic voices is one of the little problem of DuoLingo, but as a native speaker i can hear «не» perfectly. Go ahead and it will come =)
second time ive accidentally wrote "Not, she is no here" as i try to focus on the russian phrase and im less encouraged to continue as im afraid to loose more hearts.
In spanish, we just use the word "no" to mean "not," do you do this in Russian as well?
