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"Я здесь, потому что здесь моё место."
Translation:I am here because my place is here.
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Well, you could make a philosophical pot. Or you can philosophate while making a pot.
«Здесь мой дом.» -Elsa from Frozen, in the Russian version of Let It Go (Отпусти и забудь)
You may contrast the following meanings
потому́ что — because
и потому́ — and that's why / therefore / consequently
И потому is like italian così..or ' il perchè ' o ' la ragione.. I'm not native italian speaker..
Perciò
Conveys the result of what has just been mentioned
Perché
Is used when the result is first, and the reason is linked then (so it is the opposite structure)
It was cold, so that's why we didn't go out
Бы́ло хо́лодно и потому́ мы не вы́шли
Faceva freddo perciò non siamo usciti
I didn't call, because I was sick
Я не звони́л, потому́ что боле́л
Non ho chiamato, perché ero malato
Perciò = quindi / per questa ragione / e così
Perché = per causa di + sostantivo o un verbo all’infinito
As there are many ways to express the same idea, it is important to keep it simple
In the second use case, «потому́» can be replaced with a synonymous «поэ́тому», also an adverb. The former originates from the word «тот» ("that"), while the latter does from «э́тот» ("this").
With either word, «и» can be omitted.
Example: «Начался дождь, поэ́тому дети пошли домой».
It can be but is sort of bookish. The word means "for this reason". Поэтому is the word we normally use in this meaning:
- Здесь моё место, поэтому я (и) здесь. ~ My place is here, and that's why I am here.
- Я был занят, поэтому решил позвонить вечером. ~ I was busy so I decided to make a call in the evening.
- Сегодня будет дождь, поэтому я взял зонт. ~ It will rain today, that's why I have an umbrella ("took" it along).
- У неё мало денег, поэтому она не поедет с нами. ~ She does not have much money so she will not come with us.
You can, in principle, use потому in these sentences but it is going to sound odd. Потому-то somewhat less so.
Actually, most hits of потому without что in Russian National Corpus ended up being "потому как", which is an alternative of "потому что" (we sometimes use it in spoken speech).
"As" can mean "because" in British English, but this course generally uses American English, so acceptance of British-exclusive phrasing is the exception rather than the norm.
Из-за is more like "due to" and only works with nouns. If you have a clause, you should use из-за того, что.
The preposition из-за, apart from its literal meaning ("from behind of"), is used to express the "culprit" of some negative outcome. That is, you consider some state unfortunate and say that the things are this way "because of" some fact, event, person or thing.
Everybody seems to think Sheldon Cooper, but this seems like something Allmight would say too.
Oh, it is just the appropriate form for a neuter noun (e.g., моё место, моё молоко, моё озеро). Мой, твой, свой, наш and ваш match their form to what you attach them to.
This may seem stupid, but is does "place" in this context mean the same thing as home?
Could I say this: я здесь, потому что мой дом?
Not quite. "My place" here is more like "the place that I am supposed to be in", "the right place for me".
I can't hear the second здесь in the spoken sentence at all. (Android app.) Is it spoken correctly? Thanks
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The audio is so fast (for a beginner who's been at this for months) that it might as well be gibberish. Trying to replicate what's being said on audio of this speed is useless and with almost complete certainty produces nothing a native speaker would understand as Russian.
Other on-line language programs do the same thing. It's counter-productive. One has to learn how to pronounce the words correctly first, before one starts to run words together and merge syllables/sounds at the ends of words with those at the beginning of the next word. This high-speed audio is just crap. Useless to a beginner. It makes no sense when you listen to it and makes no sense if you try to imitate it.
Only if by "my room" you understand "the area of space that is mine" but not a room of a building.
Thanks for the clarification. I've heard место to mean space or room (in a building and as a synonym for space) in classes, but not seat. Updating internal dictionary...
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Why is место shown as room but if you write 'I am here because this is my room' this is incorrect?? If место does not mean room it should not be used here?? If it is used to imply something then i cannot see why my sentence should not be correct??
"I am here because this here is my place," is a completely natural sentence in English and stresses the fact that the place in question indeed belongs to the subject. It should be accepted.
"ya zdes'" sounds like "yaz d-yes" and "chto zdes'" sounds like "shtoz (rhymes with "toes") d-yes" to my ear. Should a vowel-final word catch part of the lingering regressive assimilation of the next word ?
Is the second "здесь" necessary here? I translated it as "I am here, because this here is my place." following by the two "here"s and it marked it wrong.
