"Луна вращается вокруг Земли."
Translation:The Moon orbits the Earth.
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that infuriating/embarrassing moment when you understand the sentence but can't remember the right word in your native language...
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Oh I even didn't know. I just assumed it was wrong because English is not my native language
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Correct, I suppose, but I think it's unnatural. "Orbit around" is redundant and I don't think I've ever heard someone say that.
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It may be redundant, but I hear such statements more frequently with "around" than without. This may be another of our friendly regional variants.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that should be right. Me, I forgot the word orbit. And English is my native language, so I have no excuse...
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Good! Although incorrect. The Earth has a rotational period of about 24 hours and an orbital period of about 365 1/4 days. Correct would be "The Moon revolves around the Earth."
For physical motions, "rotate" is "to turn around on or as if on an axis" and "revolve" is "to move in a circular or curving course or orbit (the Earth revolves around the Sun)."
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The Moon orbits the Earth.
It's perfectly a good translation and i've written that correctly plenty of times, but today i used present continuous, so is it really wrong? "the moon is orbiting the earth?"
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There are some contexts where that would be fine: 'OK, here's our plan: the moon is orbiting the earth, let's take our space ship and...' However, as a general statement of fact it sounds unnatural - do you remember a time when the moon wasn't orbiting the earth?
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That time would be before Theia collided with the Earth: http://www.space.com/25332-moon-formation-history-lunar-evolution-infographic.html
Also see http://www.space.com/29047-how-moon-formed-earth-collision-theory.html
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hm, there really are plenty of contexts. As an answer to "what is moon doing right now?"
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Maybe a little off topic, but I heard the word возвращаться the other day, and that means "to return". Could anyone clarify how this is related to the word вращаться? They seem entirely different in meaning...
