"одно окно и две двери"
Translation:one window and two doors
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Yep. Very similar sounding words. I think this may be my first Russian tongue twister!
Even good for remembering vocabulary. I won't forget that Окно means window. :D
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His accent seems different. His a or o sound like the a in cat where usually, with other speakers, more like o in cot. Or do I hear funny? Sounded like adno akno.
Both words start with an unstressed syllable, so о is pronounced similar to а.
To be more exact, unstressed а and о sound the same, closer to А and with no lip rounding :). Which sound you find it similar to depends on which variety of English you speak—it may be U in "sun" or O in "hot", or even A in "cat".
The male voice is based off a Moscow actor, so his accent is fairly standard.
Many natives place the stress on the last syllable in the plural дверь for some reason: две двери́
«две двери» does not use plural—it is Genitive singular here. And it is the first time I hear about natives using the stress on the ending in thins form.
A more usual variation would be using «двери́» in Prepositional, which would match the Locative-2 of some other feminine nouns (e.g., в крови́, в тени́, на оси́, в пыли́, в грязи́)
I haven't said that this is correct, but I hear this all the time: две двери́, три двери́
Actually, "two of a door", since it is the genitive case. In Russian you use the genitive singular case of a noun to accompany an amount of 2 to 4.
Aaah, spelling it out with the "of" explanation totally helped me get it. Thanks.
Is окно masculine or neuter?
Like just about all nouns ending in -о, it's neuter.