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Is it correct to assume that the difference between чей, чья, чьё, and чьи is that they are masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural, respectively?
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I might be imagining it, but I notice similarities between the spoken languages of Russian and Japanese quite often!
I imagine there are words borrowed between languages, given the geographic proximity and likely level of trade. When I was first presented with норошо, it sounded to me like a word of Japanese origin.
Хорошо. I am a native speaker of the Russian language. I do not see the connection with the Japanese. we have a vulgar joke: - Сунь Hui Вчай. - Вынь Сам Пей.
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I imagine they would seem less similar to a native speaker. In fact, the more I learn Russian, the less Japanese it sounds — it was more of a 'first impression' thing.
Whoops...wrong letter. Obviously I wouldn't know, but that was my impression based upon my hearing of Japanese. There are a few others as well.
Lol I know that one, it's popular in Israel ;) (usually only the first part though).
Let's face it: languages are mixed and more intertwined than we use to think. English is a French-German dialect. Dutch is a English-German dialect. French, Spanish, Portuguese Latin and German help (me) to learn quicker. And yes, you guessed it, I'm German, so i wouldn't know which mixture-of-languages dialect that is. But sure, we have a lot of influences from French and English, but also there's an uncommon version of работать, друг,...
(May contain bits of sarcasm)
I'm from Russia and my relatives have said, that back in the days they only spoke French in Russia (French was more used). So that is why so many words are taken from French and they sound same and have the same meaning.
I was thinking of the same thing. Is the sentence correct in English? I'm not a native English speaker so I can't confirm that.
As a native speaker of ("American") English, this seems fine, although the situation itself raises its own questions... :)
"Whose tea is she drinking?" is a more natural sentence. This sentence, while fine, is not what a natural speaker would say.
I agree...this sentence implies that she drinks someone else's tea on a regular basis instead of brewing her own.
ch in chip, e in yEt, y in boy - chey - чЕй; ch in chip, a in cAr, y in boy - chay - чАй.
Maybe that's better.
Is she drinking the wrong person's tea, or do we want to know the brand of tea she drinks?
This sounds like Chinese or Japanese Lol! Is she drinking someone else's tea? That sounds wrong. There is something weird about this sentence
It is but coincidentally the accusative case for inanimate masculine nouns is the same as nominative.
When in doubt, check something like wiktionary.com
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=чей&oldid=51446507
чай doesn't sound Russian. Isn't that the same word Indiands use for a spicy milk tea?
Чай is means tea of corse, but it is taken from Farsi (Persian). I was born in Russia so I know
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I've been caught out a few times with this one too... :-/ Она has an unstressed vowel at the start and the а is stressed. Анна has the stress on the first a and the н sounds longer. Here's a link to one of the discussions about it: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/40260732
So this is "Whose tea is she drinking". How would I say the sentence with "does she drink" instead?
