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- "Добрый день."
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yes, (I think...still learning:) but when you say dyen fast it sounds like din
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Interesting how "din" in hindi means day/morning. And dyen here also means day/morning. Surprisingly similar!
You could say "хорошо", but you'd have to change it according to the proper case if you're following it with dyen
kakoi dyen? (which day?) horoshiy. (good)
so you'd say "horoshiy dyen"
but then I've never heard anyone say that. I think you'd be better of saying Dobriy
"horosho" = well, good
so it would make sense more to say good day not well day
"dobriy"= good, kind
don't let the kind trip you up. it's still correct, even if it sounds weird in english
That means "kind". Russians say "Kind Morning". It would be more closely resembling хорошо, even though хорошо actually means one od these 3: well, okay, all right.
Is there a specific term for good morning or is it just добрый день? and if there is a specific term, what is it?
There is a specific term for 'good morning' and it is "доброе утро".
Yeah, as our classmate already pointed out is доврое утро. Since день is more for "day".
as adj: добрый- kind. хороший-well. добрый день is using like a greeting, хорошего дня -have a nice day
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 .
So in Russian, if something is acceptable, can you just say, "Dobryi.", like, "Good."?
I believe "horosho" would be more acceptable in this case since it means "well" "dobriy", however, means both "good" and "kind"
horosho. well. it's just more common
Why is "hello" not accepted for this one? I'm assuming this is the standard way to say "hello" politely, and "hello" was accepted for добрый лэнь in another exercise where it was part of a sentence.
Well, this is the specific expression for "good afternoon", so it would be better to keep it as literal as possible.
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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
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I also think it should be accepted. If not, then what is the best way to translate "Hello"? Привет is more informal, like "Hi".
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Noooo! Really wrong tranlation occuring also in Polish language. It is used like "Hello." It is used independently on the daytime. :(
When i put my mouse on Добрый, I think I hear dobray instead of dobriy. Which one is correct?
dobriy is correct. sometimes when you talk quickly it just sounds a bit different
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"
Here is добрый, instead of доброе like in доброе утро, because день is feminine?
No. день is masculine, and утро is neuter. So добрый is for masculine nouns, доброе is for neuter nouns and добрая is for feminine nouns.
You use доброе when the following noun is neuter and добрый when it's masculine (use добрая for feminine nouns). День is a masculine noun, so "добрый день" is grammatically correct, not "доброе день".
I thought добрый день meant "good night" not "afternoon "? Can it be used for both?
Добрый День means "Good day/Good afternoon" Добрый Вечер means good evening and Спокойой Ночи means "Have a calm/peaceful night" used when you know someone is going to bed soon.
- доброе утра - Good morning
- добрый день - Good afternoon
- добрый вечер - Good evening
- Cпокойной ночи - Good night
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!
they do. dobroye utro= good morning. dobriy den= good day/afternoon dobriy vecher= good evening
This is easy for me to say because I speak some Czech at home with my dad who had to learn Czech :-o
I speak Polish and “dzien” means “day” and it’s confusing me because in Russian it means “afternoon”.
День means "day" in Russian too. However "Добрый день", which literally means "Good day", is used as a greeting in the morning, at noon and in the afternoon.
Can't you say this at any time of the day because literally it means "Good day."?
Russian doesn't have a separate phrase for "good afternoon" (or a single word translation for "afternoon" for that matter), and English rarely uses "good day" as a greeting (it happens, but not often). So it makes sense to treat "добрый день" is the closest equivalent of "good afternoon".
It is, but "good day" usually has a bit different tone. In this case "good afternoon" is an idiomatic translation, not literal one.
