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- "Это наше общее дело."
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DL offered "general" in hints-on hover, so I used "general" and DL marked it wrong. I've seen "общее" used in a lot of ways, such that I'm completely confused by it. In addition to what DL offers in hints-on-hover, "общее" can seem to be used as "ordinary" "usual" "typical" "regular" and probably many more. DL says that, in this sentence, "общее дело" can be translated as "common cause." As does Google. "Common cause" in American English seems to be almost an idiom, probably because of the 1970 US political advocacy group named "Common Cause." Today, especially in the US, many advocacy and lobbying groups now claim to be formed to promote a "common cause." My question is, does "общее дело" have that same, idiom-like flavor, such that any time you see those two words together you know it somehow refers to an advocacy or lobbying effort of some kind?
Yes, it's a kind of an idiom, it's used in this way:
Беречь природу - наше общее дело: It's our common cause to protect nature
Also, there are a bunch of political movements with such a name.
"Our General Problem" either affects everybody, the society, or it is fundamental in the relationship of the people talking.
Common affects everybody involved. Its what the people talking have in common.
So both meanings are Kind of close, but General is too much here.
It would probably only apply without the наш. It's a General Problem...
"It is our shared business". Is that acceptable as a translation, though it would change the meaning somewhat...?
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"This is our shared business" was accepted on 17 Feb 2016. :-)
Quite a different meaning, though, can it actually mean this?
Is this "business" in the sense of "affair" (as in "that's my business - and not yours!"), or can it also be "business" in the sense of company?
It's more like the English word "affair", Russian would use "компания" to refer to a company.
what would you say if you are presenting a result of a team work? Like "This is our common work"? Would it not be "Это наше общее дело"?
Could Duolingo accept: "It is our mutual issue."? (Our "our business/affair") it seems difficult to find a good way in English to say that an issue/affair/business is mutual/common/both of ours/joint and still have a grammatically correct expression in English.
Common cause sounds to me as more things has broken down because of one common cause. The term common cause failure is in technical english used very often, but i don't get it in this context.
I'm Indonesian, not a native English speaker. Can someone explain what common cause means to me? I searched it in Google, but I still don't get it. Hehehe.
"Cause" could be a goal or something to achieve. So a "common cause" could be a shared goal or objective.
Think of a football team in the World Cup. Every player in the team as well as the coaches have the same cause or objective to win the World Cup.
So winning the world cup is their common cause. Their "общее дело"
"Cause" was not one of the words provided for me on this question, and none of the other words seemed that they'd make sense, so I had to use the keyboard to answer. Anybody else have this problem?
guys i have confusion when to pronounce letter 'o' in russian as 'a' because in many words 'o' sounds like 'a' eg; yablaka
In Russian, when the emphasis of the word falls on the "o" it is pronounced as "o". When the emphasis is not on that letter, it makes an "a" sound.
Anyone else listening something like "праливо" instead of "правило"? (early December 2019)
