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- "Мама уже на работе."
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I don't see anything wrong, except the verb to be is usually placed before the adverb, just after the subject: "Mom is already at work"
For emphasis, it is acceptable to put the adverb nearer the front of the sentence but the standard word order puts it after the verb. Duolingo seems to require standard word order unless it does not.
Palote means a big palo, and a palo is a stick. Palote is a casual way to refer to the state of a penis when it's erect.
Работе sounds almost the same as "rabote" = big tail. And in some parts of Spain "rabo" (tail) is used as euphemism for penis
Pаботе sounds alot like it's being pronounced with a P at the beginning, can anyone else hear it?
I think it's the на you're hearing, I can still hear the rolled R in работе
and later i tried this answer "mom is already at work", and it has been accepted, wtf?
@jrusitahabla - In English we don't say "the work" when talking about it as a location, which is how it is used in this exercise.
"The work" as a process/a thing is fine, though. If the sentence were "Мама уже начала работу", then "Mom already started the work" would sound OK (as long as we knew what work was being talked about).
When you use the preposition "na" to describ the physical location of somebody or something, it puts the noun in prepositional case. The -a ending becomes -e in such case. Words that end in -ie and -iya take the -ii ending (Stantsiya -> na stantsii). If it's a masculine word ending in a consonant then you add a -e to the end of it (kompyuter - v kompyutere)
When the preposition "na" is used to describe the destination of an action (going to a place, setting something down on something), then it'll be accusative, and the -a in rabota becomes an -u (rabotu).
I am sorry for the translit, do not have the RU keyboard set up on my phone.
How do you turn on the Russian letters? ????? I try to spell it the way I think it should be pronounced, but you always tell me it's spelled wrong. Of course it's wrong. I need the Russian letters!
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This lady pronounces /те/ not the way Russian people do. It must be softer like /tse/, not /te/. When т or д goes with е or и, they become softer. Is that right, Russian gentle people?
The «т» in «работе» is supposed to sound soft. The audio sample reads it like a hard «т» which sounds like «тэ».
