"Grass is near the palace."
Translation:Возле дворца трава.
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This is an awkward sounding sentence, perhaps "there is grass near the palace" would be a better way to phrase this.
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On the grass is a darova!! What. And this gets 13 upvotes and a Lingo? I'm I missing the joke? The last translation is husterical.
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This was flagged five ago and it is still the same awkward sentence. Hellllllo!? Waky waky.
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Разница есть, "возле" это когда рядом, близко, больше всего подходит near, "Около" это уже дальше от объекта, в пределах видимости или быстрой досягаемости пешком
If Дворца is the prepositional form,what would be the nominative form?
Дворец is nominitive. Sometimes the penultimate vowel of a noun with a suffix will be dropped. Simply has to be memorized.
The existence of both things are both known, otherwise it would be a question of there being a palace near the grass, if I understand from other lessons. Kind of like having a brother or sister, when stating as such it's confirming existence, but by having a relation of where both items are, i.e. near, they both are determined already.
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Yes, the lesson notes say '«есть» is not used, unless the sentence really has to emphasize the existence of the object'.
Во́зле is a preposition and, together with a noun it modifies (дворца́), it constitutes an indivisible phrase. You could insert other words modifying the noun (e.g. возле краси́вого дворца́ 'near the beautiful palace'), but not completely unrelated words.
I'll certainly remember the placement now thanks to the meme :)
So, based on what you've said, "Возле трава дворца" would actually mean "The palace is near the grass"? Or is it just completely awkward/nonsensical?
Sorry, yes, it's definitely a preposition! I'll need to fix my message. (Upd: fixed it)
«Возле трава дворца» would mean nothing, since во́зле requires genitive, and трава́ is nominative. It could work if there was a masculine noun тра́в (near the palace's трав), but we don't have such a noun.
Also updated - this never happened ;)
And, ugh, of course Возле/genitive. This is my most frustrating thing about Russian right now. I'm getting more comfortable with the case system (which is progress, I suppose) - I just don't always remember to think about it.
Thanks!
That makes sense! So возле трава дворца would mean something similar (the palace is near the grass), but not literally what they're looking for?
What you wrote means, 'Near the grass, palace.' But none of the conjugation are correct
I think this would mean «The grass is near the palace», but I’m not sure.
I could be wrong in my attempt to apply this elsewhere, but I found your word order explanation of something similar on another thread to be extremely helpful. It's still awkward for me but having that framework in which to think of it has been very useful.
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/11607192
Or, it doesn't apply here at all and I don't understand it as well as I think I do. That's entirely possible, likely even! Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.
Thanks! This is applicable here.
Since the time I wrote that post I've found a description of word order in Rosenthal. Basically, it confirms my intuition about the old/new information (topic-comment relation), but there's another dimension to it: sometimes the word order is fixed.
An example of the fixed word order is the position of adjectives, I've decribed it here yesterday: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/11877095 — it has nothing to do with what's new information.
Not all prepositions take prepositional case. Возле and около take the genitive.
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I don't know when i have to use accusative, genetive and nominative in these sentences... Can someone explain it to me....
Is "Трава находится близко дворца" wrong? In case, why? I always thought близко and возле were synonyms.
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If you use "близко" you need a preposition after this word like this:
"близко к дворцу", "близко ко мне"
The grass grows ("растёт"), not lies. "Возле дворца лежит трава" implies mowed grass.
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No one, especially native speakers would say wird order is nit important. A bit more flexible , but irder can change meaning, even in Russian.
I have such difficulty comprehending the cases without an abundance of clear examples. Somebody explained above that дворца is genitive and дворце , is prepositional. But would somebody be so kind as to give a few examples of sentences which correctly use дворце?
Thanks in advance!
The prepositional case is always used with, well, prepositions. These are the prepositions that can be used: в(о), на, о/об/обо, по, при. На isn't very useful for дворец, and по can't be used at all. These are the rest:
Король живёт во дворце. — The king lives in the palace.
Посейдон живёт в роскошном дворце на дне моря. — Poseidon lives in a luxurious palace at the bottom of the sea.
Сегодня во дворце бал. — There is a ball in the palace today.
Опочивальня — это спальня во дворце. — A bedchamber is a bedroom in a palace.
Расскажи мне о Дворце Наций! — Tell me about the Palace of Nations!
книга о Зимнем дворце — a book about The Winter Palace
При дворце есть шут. — There is a jester at the palace.
It's in the genitive case. The preposition "возле" requires the genitive.
I really cannot predict the word order. Some say it emphasizes the focus of the sentence, but how to predict this?
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Duolingo doesnt rlly put stories for us to read in russian unlike the more popular languages. Its not fair tbh
Though you won't get points for it, there is a site that translates the original Duolingo stories into unsupported languages. Look up Unofficial Duolingo Stories.
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It would be fun if every time we finished a section we could get a story to read using the words we learned. It would be hard to do that when we didn't learn much yet but I wouldn't care if it was short and silly.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE. I CANNOT GET THEM. Why is the answer flipped like this, sheesh this is the most difficult lesson to date for no specific reason. I have spent 2 hrs on this
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Do the location first then add what's near it. NEAR THE PALACE (is ) grass. We know about THE palace. What's near it? (Newer info) grass. The word THE in English means it will be placed first in Russian. Grass is near THE palace. Near THE palace is grass. Both these will be translated Возле дворца - трава. If you say Воэле траве - дворец it would mean near THE grass is a palace. THE Grass would become what we know and A palace is is what we didn't know.
