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- "Я хочу утку и рис."
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Don't blame auto correct, it only pulls from the words that are most used in its DICT-ionary. haha jk. Pun-inteneded
We Cantonese actually have such food, but I don't imagine saying it in Russian.
I didn't see any in Moscow last time I was there, but I'd be surprised if there weren't any in the southeast of the nation.
Why is «утку» declined but not «рис»? I would have expected utku and risu
"рис" is a masculine word, so the acussative case is the same as the nominative.
and it's an inanimate noun. Masculine animate nouns (people and animals) copy the genitive.
But why isn't рис in the genitive case (i.e. риса). The lesson notes say something like, 'with mass nouns we still use genitive to indicate 'some of X''.
This raises an interesting topic I've been turning over. In an actual class you learn the language partially by learning words for popular foods from the regions where they speak that language. I thought getting into this would involve reading about a lot of pierogi and vodka and stuff like that. But I guess not!
I wrote "I want the duck and the rice", and was marked wrong for the 2 "the". What am I missing here?
This could be one specific menu item as opposed to an entree and a side dish. Try reporting to see what happens. How are we to know if the duck can be ordered separately from the rice, or not? https://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/web?q=duck%20and%20rice%20in%20Russia
this sounded almost nothing like I expected it to. is the voice correct here? it is very hard to even hear the утку
I think this is because Russian, like a lot of other languages, elides vowels if one comes after the other. I wasn't paying attention to the text and heard: 'ya khochut ku ee-ris'. This is something we're going to have to pay special attention to I guess.
Is утку a word that always works for "duck"? I tried to order duck in a Kyrgyz restaurant this summer, and my fluent-in-Russian-friend said the menue was ambiguous and that duck isn't always duck. Maybe just "bird"? I don't remember, but this is very intriguing to me. Btw, they didn't have duck left.
Does this sentence sound rude when said to a person? Because of the "want" instead of "would lime to".
Your question is actually addressed in the "tips/guide" section for this. Apparently in Russian it's not, as long as you say "пожалуйста" at the end.
I presume the "duck" this sentence is referring to is the type that is already cooked and ready to eat, i.e. it is dead, inanimate. Wouldn't it then be more logical to say "Я хочу утка" if you wanted a (dead) duck to eat, and "Я хочу утку" if you wanted a live duck (to play with)?
Is я хочу literally "I want" or is it closer to "I would like". If I was ordering food at a restaurant it would sound odd to say I want.
why is "i want a duck and some rice"?, as duolingo indicated, there shouldn't be a particular word for "some"?
