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"These are our lions!"
Translation:Это наши львы!
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how would you pronounce "львы", considering the e was dropped from between л and в?
It sounds something like "liv-wee." Can some provide a preferable pronunciation?
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If you ever happen to work for the Russian version of Fort Boyard, this should work. ;)
I am unsure as to whether the lions are there or not, though, since the show exhibits quite some variations from one country to another…
The idea is so you learn vocabulary while you learn structure. You're not supposed to memorize these sentences, but use them as a guide so you can make your own ones.
Not quite.
In this case, "это львы" is translated as "These are lions." The key here is that это is used to define something, regardless of the gender or count.
эта, это, этот, эти are used in a slightly different manner. Instead of saying "these are lions," эти львы would mean "these lions," and you would have to add more to the sentence to specify what the lions are doing, for example, "эти львы едят." (These lions are drinking.)
Notice that while saying это львы (These are lions) forms a complete sentence, эти львы (these lions) does not.
Now that's a strange plural if I've ever seen one. Anyone know the etymology of that?
Reduction. Words are like stones on the seashore: parts get worn off with ages. Here, 'e' is gone from the middle while 'л' remained soft, so 'ь' is used to show it.
Damn it!! I just can't get the hang of when to use и or ы for plurals and which words use which one, or when they are used as a grammatical ending, e.g. "у мамы есть карандаш". I have been cycling around the Animals-1 practice session for 20 minutes now, and I can't get them right!!
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ь is the soft sign. It tells you the letter before it is pronounced softer than it usually is. It has no sound. ы has a pronunciation though. It kinda starts like the part between 'wee!!' and finishes with the 'ee' sound.
Be careful of confusing З with Э, I got marked wrong for using the wrong letter.
Didn't accept my answer with all the correct words because it was missing the "!" Hahaha
"вот наши львы" wasn't accepted. does вот have a different connotation that makes it inappropriate here? or does it sound weird?
Ah yes of course if i ever meet russian people i will first of all tell them that i own some lions and... Oh totally forgot to feed them... Damn it
I looked it up and it offered two versions for the plural form of лев :/
https://www.dict.com/russian-english/%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2 (click on the little blue triangle pointing down beside the russian word to display it's forms in different cases)
Can anyone explain why this is? Are the two interchangeable or are there any special cases one or the other is used in?
Can't you say "Эти львы наши" as well? I thought the emphasis was on "our"
That means "I have", which doesn't really have anything to do with "our" or 'lions"
