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It's hard to tell the difference between the Russian word for "eat" and the Russian word for "go"
I am not a native Russian but as i know Идёте(idyote) is about movement.
Идти(infinitive) Я иду Ты идёшь Он/Она/Оно идёт Мы идём Вы идёте Они идут
The second syllable in идёте is a stressed "yo". Едите sounds like идите as the first syllable is unstressed, but the second syllable is different
Do they put these similar-sounding words togetger in the lesson on purpose? Its confusing for me since most of these words are new to me, but I'm glad they do it so I can learn to differentiate between them
How can we tell that this is a question? I don't hear a raise of intonation anywhere in the sentence :(
If this phrase was recorded by a real person, she would put the stress on the word едите:
Вы еди́те яблоки?
If Вы едите яблоки translates as "Do you eat apples" How would you say "Are you eating apples"?
Maybe you could emphasize "eating" to say "Are you eating apples" and emphasize "apples" to say "Do you eat apples".
This is wild speculation on my part... What do the mother-tongue speakers say?
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why is яблоки the plural for Accusative яблоко?
The rules as I've learned them so far say that, for inanimate objects, we use the Nominative Neuter Plural ending, which is -а for neuter words ending in -о. So, the plural should be яблока, not яблоки.
Of course, яблока sounds exactly like яблоко when it is pronounced.
sorry misunderstood your question, need to improve my reading skills lol
Яблоко - яблоки is an exception, you have just to remember it. Another similar one is Очко - очки.
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Спасибо!
I have been asking this question for a couple weeks at different places, you're the first to answer, so please, enjoy a lingot.
"Вы едите яблоко?" = Are you eating an apple atm?
"Вы едите яблоки?" = Do you eat apples at all? (or maybe you hate them or are allergic to apples)
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Or "Вы едите яблоки?" said to a group of people, "Are you [all] eating apples [at the moment]?"
NB: I never translate formal "you" in any language as "you all" because Duo will invariably reject it. Duo gets to use it, to make clear that it wants the 2nd person plural of "you", but we users don't get to use it.
It cracks me up that one of the options (incorrect ones) is "do you eat children"
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Real hard to hear the pronounciation of eat in this sentance. Can someone try to explain the sound?
еди́те. Short е like [yellow], long stressed ди́ like [deer], short те, that sounds more like ти (because that's unstressed vowel) like [pretty]
Are the stressed vowels always a bit longer? That might help with recognizing them...
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Вы also is the polite form of singular "you", so for that "you all" would be wrong.
Is there a reason "Do you eat the apples" was marked incorrect? By my understanding, this should be an acceptable translation.
Then how would you translate the sentence "Do you eat the apples?" into Russian?
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ест is 3rd person singular "he/she eats". Look at a conjugation table to see the different conjugations for each person.
That's the 3rd time in this lesson that DL has failed to tell me that I misspelt a word. 6.10.19.
Why can't it be "Do you eat the apples?". E.g. if someone was speaking about some special apples before.
The definite particle has no place here because we are talking about apples in general. Not specific ones.
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You mean definite "article", as in "the apples" - but with Russian, there's no definite article, so without some other context, it's impossible to say whether this sentence is talking about "apples" or "the apples" - although I suspect that there is a way of making this difference clear in Russian. So far, it seems that using some form of это would be the way, but I'm sure there are more.
It seems to me that a more natural translation would be 'Do you like apples?'
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If you were doing a literary translation, perhaps. This is a language course for beginners, some of whom might need to ask their Russophone acquaintances which fruits are in accord with their food allergies.
Thanks. I take your point about beginners, although I think Russians would say they had an allergy if they did in response to either question as would we.
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The obverse of my point exactly. It's not about "liking" or "not liking" apples, it's about whether or not you eat them.
In other words, it's not correct to translate едите as "do you like" .
