"Tim is a dog, he does not understand Russian."
Translation:Тим — собака, он не понимает русский язык.
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I bet if you wanted to teach him the Russian for "walkies", he'd learn it soon enough.
Apparently it's more common than i thought, 3 aces learning russian? Lmao jackpot
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google translate says : он не понимает по русски so both translations - по русски and русский язык .must be correct
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он instead of она surprised me a bit, but I suppose it's like Ирина - директор, она ... ? if that makes sense.
In english if you have a canine named Anna, you say 'Anna is my dog' even though 'dog' is the male word for a canine, it's also used in general. In Russian the female word for a canine is the one that's also used in general.
Titmaus, you are correct in your knowledge of English punctuation. In English we need to have a conjunction here such as "and." Alternatively, a semicolon could be used. Many people have not learned the rules regarding commas and think that it is okay to simply throw commas in wherever their voices pause in phrasing. They are mistaken. There are ten rules allowing commas, and when a sentence does not present any of these reasons, then probably a comma should not be used. Here they are: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/commas.htm
To answer your question, Russian is a different language and has its own set of rules. It is perfectly acceptable to use a dash in Russian as is shown in this example.
personally my logic tells me that neither и in Russian, nor "and" in English would work, because they would change the meaning of the sentence, which is: "Tim is a dog, (therefore) it doesn't understand Russian". That's just me anyway.
Phrase "Тим – собака, и он не понимет русский язык." is correct in Russian. And it means the same.
So my husband is a native Russian speaker and this question bothers him, amongst many. He says собака is used for female dogs, and пёс for males, but Duolingo doesn't accept пёс.
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It's fun to know that the word "собака" in Ukrainian (written exactly as in Russian) is masculine.
Shouldn't it be "понимает по-русски", or does it not matter? The following website tells me that this should be so: http://www.russianforeveryone.com/Rufe/Lessons/Course1/Grammar/GramUnit5/GramUnit5_3.htm
I put «Тим собака, не понимает русский» and was marked wrong. Is it necessary to include the words «он» and/or «язык» in this sentence?
I am surprised nobody notices that "language" is not written anywhere in the exercise test, therefore why should the student translate a word which is not comprised within the text? It happens often on Duolingo Russian course.
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по-русски means 'in Russian', that's why they call it 'adverbial form'. While русский is the adjective 'Russian'.
Are you a native speaker or is that your theory? Because, as some people have pointed out, I've always been taught to use "по-русски".
If you are in fact a native speaker, what is the difference between the two?
At this point in time, I am no different than a dog. I also don't understand ruskyy yazik
Tim, listening to this conversation from his owner's lap, begs to differ
Да. Собака она, существительное женского рода. Но кличка собаки Тим, значит в этом случае это пёс, мальчик, кобель.
Why can't we write the verb at the end of this sentence, while in some other sentences the verb goes at the end?
- "tim is a dog" there is no "this" in the sentence so there is no "это" in the translation
- знает = to know. In the sentence was the word "understand" so it is "понимает" (form of понимать = understand)
- его = his. We needed the word for "he" wich is "он" so can you guess why you failed ;)
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Maybe, just maybe Tim is not a 'dog', but called so because he doesn't understand Russian...
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"To speak (Name_of_language)" is "говорить по-(part of (name_of_language))ски" or "говорить на (part of (name_of_language))ском языке".
It is just this way ¯|(ツ)/¯
interesting. So is it only used in that way or are there other ways to use it? Thank you, btw!
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There are other ways of using "по": as a preposition ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/по#Russian ) and as a prefix ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/по-#Russian ).
Huh. Why can't you drop the «он» here like you do in other constructions where the subject remains the same?
I understand now that он is because the subject Tim to be a masculine name. So what happened if the name is unisex?
Why would that be a problem? Even if the name is unisex, you presumably know whether the dog is male or female if you are familiar with it enough to know its name.
