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"My dad often comes home before 10 pm."
Translation:Мой папа часто приходит домой до десяти часов вечера.
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Why I can't translate «dad» as «отец», not as «папа»? I can translate «папа/отец» as «father/dad» in course of English for russians.
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Отец is more official variant. We usually use it if we pray respect to father. This sentence is just usual and we say Папа - it sounds more kindly
Nibody would say 'после десяти (часов) вечера'! It is more than enough to mention 'десяти вечера' otherwise sound wierd and artificial.
Why does до cover both before 10pm (here) and until 6pm (elsewhere)? In English those are separate concepts.
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When do we use a genitive form, (вечера, ночи), and when do we use an instrumental form (вечером, ночью) when describing when events happen?
There is one thing in Russian language - падеж (I don't know how to translate it on English). If the noun answers on кого? чего?, it means we need Родительный падеж and the noun will be вечера, ночи. When it answers on кем? чем? - вечером, ночью (look more in internet)
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When translating from Russian to English, Duo accepts numerals (e.g., 10), but when translating from English to Russian, Duo wants the Russian numeral spelled out using the Cyrillic alphabet.
Можно сделать слово "часов" не обязательным?В России так рядко говорят;обычно:...до десяти вечера
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why is it десяти and not десят I thought that numbers don't change forms when used as part of the whole (десят часов)
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The ending match endings for feminine singular nouns ending in -ь:
Nom десять
Acc десять
Gen десяти
Dat десяти
Inst десятью
Prep десяти
but that doesn't appear to affect the case/gender of the things being counted, as here, where часов is genitive masculine plural.
"до десяти часов ночи" was rejected. Do you say "десять ночи" in Russian?
Я согласен. He could be coming by car, so приездит would work in that context. Приходит implies he's walking, and it is unclear from the context which one is more correct, at least to me.
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Should 'перед десяти вечера' be accepted? Does it mean 'right before 10 p.m.' ('just before 10 p.m.')?
How would you distinguish between "My dad works until 10" and "My dad works before 10" -- meaning that he has to arrive at work before 10? It seems like до allows for both meanings.
