"Добрый день."
Translation:Good afternoon.
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साखर (Sakhar) in Marathi means "sugar" and it is used the same in Russian (сахар) as well! I once read that this was due to the close relation between slavik and languages like Marathi, Hindi, etc. with common origin of Sanskrit.
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Добрый is a masculine adjective in the nominative case; доброе is a neutral adjective in the nominative case; доброго is a masculine adjective in the genetive case.
See all forms: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B9#Declension .
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Well, this is the specific expression for "good afternoon", so it would be better to keep it as literal as possible.
Actually I believe that Добрый день actually has meaning that does not exist in english - when you translate it, it says 'good day' which is a common greeting in slavic languages and is used all day as a form of formal greeting.
If I am wrong, please correct me. I'm not very keen in Russian, but I'm a native czech speaker
In Russian both masculine and feminine nouns can end with ь (soft sign). The best way to determine the gender of a word is to look it up in the словарь (dictionary-m.) These are a few ways you can determine if a noun ending in -ь is masculine: - the nouns are denoting male persons: учитель - teacher; вратарь - goalkeeper; парень - guy, fellow; король - king - months: январь - January; февраль - February; июнь - June - nouns ending in -тель: выключатель - switch, button switch; двигатель - engine, motor There are also a few ways to determine if a noun ending in -ь is feminine: - nouns denoting female persons like мать - mother and дочь - daughter - nouns ending in -жь, -шь, -чь, -щь: ночь - night; рожь - rye; помощь - help; брошь - brooch - nouns ending in -ость, -есть, like молодость - youth and свежесть - freshness But for instance площадь (area, square) is feminine, and so is тетрадь (notebook). So always use a dictionary! I hope this is helpful!
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This sign, mark "ь" is changing phonetic pronunciation previous letter, for soft. In czech it is ť, ď, ň, , same function.
Can anyone elaborate on the spelling rule behind добрые? I guessed "добри"