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"Я всё, кроме русского, изучала в школе."
Translation:I studied everything except Russian at school.
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I wrote basically the same sentence but i phrase it "have studied " and it was accepted. Apparently "have" is super important.
Standing alone, both are acceptable in American English. There are however phrases where we say one but not the other. We say "She's away at school," when someone is living away from home to attend their educational institution. (This is true of K-12 or college). But we don't say "She's away in school."
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I submitted "I studied everything other than Russian at school." and it wasn't accepted. I reported it, but please let me know if this isn't right; thanks!
wiktionary entry for preposition кроме confirms it demands genitive. this is the best resource imo https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5
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To my mind this can have 2 different meanings:
1) Of all the subjects taught in school, Russian is the only one I didn't study.
2) Everything I ever studied, I did at school. Except for Russian, which I studied at a different place.
Can anyone clarify which of the 2 is meant? I'm guessing the first one, but how would you say the second one, then?
Actually, I think you may just need additional information in a separate sentence to express the second meaning you described. Also, I may rearrange the first sentence, as such:
«Я всё изучала в школе, кроме русского. Этот язык я изучала в университете.»
Not a native speaker, though, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong!
Perhaps not in all contexts, but in this context it definitely could.
wiktionary says "except, besides" so 'apart from' seems fairly synonymous
Why does Duolingo have a man read the text when it uses the past tense feminine form?
Haha, but I did study Russian, just not very well. I worked hard at avoiding it, and I was quite successful, looking at what I need to learn now!
I tried 3 different sentences and all of them should have been accepted, wtf is going on with duo???? If I use "in" i should use "at" if I use "at" it says it should be "in", the same goes with "besides" and "but"... I will just copy-paste the bloody sentence...
I put "I studied everything besides Russian in school" and well, that's correct.. Should be anyways
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This is a very manly voice for a "female" sentence. I suggest they change either the voice to a woman's or the изучала то изучал.
Поэтому is a word I hear my Russian customers using but haven’t come across in this course yet. I assume from context it means something like “therefore”
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This inspired me to check what Yandex Translate would offer as a suggestion. It came up with: Вот почему ты здесь
I find this to be an interesting construct which I would translate to mean: "Here is why you are here". It's the first time I've seen почему used outside the context of a question.
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No. Genitive after " кроме" , as after a number of other prepositions ,eg. " у,возле,около,после,без,вокруг...
I haven’t figured out all the cases yet but I assumed русского was the equivalent of этого, and would roughly translate as “of Russian”
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"I was studying everything in school except Russian" not accepted 30 Jan 2019. Reported.
It is said with a masculine voice which is disturbing since the sentence is at the first person feminine.
This is really the word order a Russian would use? “I everything, except Russian, studied at school.”
I guess I can kind of wrap my head around it but it seems so clunky to have the verb so late in the sentence.
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The way I think of it is like having language lessons from a male teacher. He has to sometimes speak in feminine gender in order to teach all gender variations. Otherwise the students would only learn how to express themselves in masculine gender.
Back in high school French class, the teacher (male) designated one of the boys in the class as the girl Katherine in order for there to be a feminine gender as it was an all boys school.
Your teacher's interesting solution to the gender problem is creative. But I know that Duo has a Russian-speaking female who can read these sentences.
And it seems that more often than not this program chooses the wrong gender for the sentences...the difference is pretty obvious though, so it might use reverse psychology to help fix the difference in my mind since I'm constantly noticing it. Actually I suspect it may assign the exercises alternately to the male or female voice and then randomly select the sentence, but it would still be nice if they matched. I'm sure Vladimir Putin would agree!
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To be very literal, the translation is:
"I everything, except Russian, studied in school."
This is not proper English so we have to restructure it when translating to English:
"I studied everything, except Russian, in school."
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I studied everything at the school except russian.
Not accepted...this is just to push you to get premium.
That word order wouldn’t be used in English, not in that context anyway
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i know that Duo teaches not to change word order in it's basic courses but it feels so right "everything except russian i studied in school"
