"Read this when you have time."
Translation:Прочитай это, когда у тебя будет время.
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1496
First of all, "читай это, когда у тебя будет время", you forgot to translate "have".
No, it is not wrong. But your choice is different.
The choice from the task has a meaning "to read something from the beginning to the end" (because of the perfective "прочитай").
Your choice has a meaning (some kind of) "to read for a while". Your choice implies that the book is realy huge, that it has a lot of information, so your interlocutor has to spend a lot of time to read it. Or, another meaning is that the conversation is about regular mass media, for example "here is a newspaper, it is published once a week, I want you to read this".
So in Russian there is a difference but, as in English is not, both should be accepted
- 1723
Do you have to use будет here to match the future implied by the perfective прочитай?
- 1496
No. This choice has the word "будет" because of the word "when" ("когда") that implies that the interlocutor currently doesn't have the time.
here is the bad translation, becuase" prochti" is simalar to "prochitai"... and more standard
- 1496
If you use the polite/plural form "вас" in the second part of this sentence, you should also use this form in the first part:
Прочитайте это, когда у вас будет время.
Почему нельзя:"Читай это, когда у тебя есть время"??? http://images.vfl.ru/ii/1519757509/cb115f7d/20758969.jpg
- 925
Уважаемые модераторы, во всплывающей подсказке ошибка в слове "когда", исправьте, пожалуйста.
