"Она молодец."
Translation:She did well.
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Couldn't this be in present tense as well, "She does well" or "She is doing well" or just "She's a good girl" "she is good"?
Does anyone know a way to distinguish between "она" and "Анна" when it's spoken? I keep making this mistake with the audio questions.
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Except I think in она the о is usually pronounced "ah", because of it being the last syllable before the stressed syllable. So if I'm not mistaken, она is "ah-NAH" and Анна is "AH-nuh". Which is why they are hard to distinguish for us non-natives. The first syllable is pronounced the same, "ah", so the key is to listen carefully to the second syllable.
I think both of you had the same sound in mind writing uh and ah. Russians actually pronounce two n's in Анна, so there are two ways in which these words are different. But yeah, it's still hard for non-natives like us. The stress usually does not change the meaning in my native language. And double consonants are just a hint for vowel lengths. Except in compounds. Okay, now my mother tongue starts sounding hard to me :D
She has done well is technically a continuous action for something across a long time period in the past. (Although colloquially can be used otherwise.) This expression is for a single action that has been performed.
I have lived in Moscow, it refers to both genders, it has even plural. But this sentence is in present.
And don't confuse молоде́ц used here (attaboy or attagirl literally) with мо́лодец (a brave young man) from old Russian tales.
but you have to "confuse" it, because it is exactly the same word! "ty molodets" means "you are brave", "you are a hero", and in a kidding way it changed meaning, but not that much
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This is an obsolete word. Nowadays it's almost never used. It means "a young married woman".
Unfortunately, Duolingo does not give me the opportunity to repeat the same question immediately and try other variants. The two suggested "correct" answer certainly do not fit the cases where someone has said "Она молодец!" to me about my daughter. "She is doing very well" or "She is a very good girl" or something like that would fit. (It was an indirect way of saying "You should be a proud father.")
In some приколи videos in youtube I have actually heard молодца. Is that common?
only informal. "Ай молодца!" as a sign of approval or ironic disapproval. the form is quite old and has rural roots.
ona molodets can mean also she is good (in the sense she can do a good job), she is cool (she can manage a difficult situation) AND she can do well, she is able
Stop using анна as a name in this course for the love of God it's so similar to она
I answered "she is a clever girl". I think in English we say this not necessarily with reference to academic qualities - thinking about it I guess we say the same to a pet.
"Attagirl" was suggested for молодец earlier, but not here...why is that? Is it because this isn't addressing the girl directly?
She did well. = (дословно) Она сделала хорошо.
Поэтому она молодец!
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Она: "ah-NAH". Анна: "AHN-nuh". Besides the vowel differences, note that the double н is pronounced differently than a single н, unlike in English.
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Анна sounds longer then она when you say она you have to say it's fast other words Аннна is long она is short
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"She is clever"? Yes, I know that молодец usually refers to a specific accomplishment rather than a general property, but none of the translations are perfect.
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"She is clever"? I have often seen молодец translated as "clever boy/girl". (Yes, I know it usually refers to a one-time achievement.)
"Молодец" doesn't mean "clever". It is a word you call someone when you want to praise them for achieving something or doing something good. So in some occasions it could be "clever girl/boy", but that requires a specific context where whatever that person achieved required being clever. But the word "молодец" itself doesn't imply anything about their intelligence or wit.
"She is great" is a valid translation which should have been accepted.