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"I don't know anything about her."
Translation:Я ничего не знаю о ней.
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I'm convinced the whole duolingo Russian course is structured around preparing you for the Russian mafia/KGB
I think the same. Maybe it is the mafia, because burglary is apparently also in their training: В этом доме ничего нет.
Yeah, but it showed me "another correct solution", which implies it's not the best answer. I wonder what's the difference.
Which case is this in? Why is it "ней" instead of "она"? What case does "о" demand? I'm confused...
It provides a mostly redundant sentence stress. Your word order would stress the fact that you don't know anything about HER specifically, as opposed to other people, but the sentence is pretty unambiguous as is. I could come up in spoken Russain, but is not the normal structure.
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for anyone wondering, the negation should not be divorced from the action it is meant to negate. ничего не must be followed by знаю, and not be separated so as to preserve the meaning of the negated action.
Я ничего о ней не знаю - is normal Russian sentence, yours doesn't mean anything Congrats, that's an achievement somehow ;)
It means "nothing", as far as I am aware Russian does not have double negatives, hence it's usage here.
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Yes, absolutely. The meaning is the same, but sounds a bit more formal, at least for my ears.
о uses prep case not instr right? or does the case matter like на/в
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О + prepositional case when you want it to mean "about." О + accusative case when you want it to mean "against."
Question for mr лошадь-место: why then is this in the instrumental lesson? Sure, it may well be ней for inst and prep...but doesn't work for мной/мне :S Confusing...
Is there anything ... wrong ... with being slightly poetic occasionally? :) I think maybe we should all be a little more poetic.
Thanks.
Is it essential to keep each word in this order in this sentence? It sounds more natural to me writing я не знаю ничего о ней.
