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Would "The blue bus is going down the street" not be ok? I'm getting kinda confused about по улице...
Another examplе used гуляет по улицу to mean down the street. Any reason why down the street is wrong here?
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It should be accepted. I translated just as mqleen did - and I reported that it should be an accepted translation (2/1/16).
Unless you apply a special intonation to the sentence, emphasizing по улице, it can't be THE bus as the subject - автобус - is put in the end of the sentence. So it is A BUS. 'Down the street' is OK, though.
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Normal word order for "The blue bus is going down the street" with neutral intonation would be "синий автобус едет по улице".
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I got it wrong for saying "the blue bus drives along the street." I'll report it just to see, but I think it might be wrong because word order generally puts new information at the end of the sentence. Since blue bus is at the end, that implies we don't know which blue bus it is, therefore it's "a" bus and not "the" bus," but it would be good if a native speaker chimed in.
Speaking of a bus, 'drives'/'runs'/'goes' all correspond to "ездит", whereas "едет по улице" means "is going down the street". Also, as native speaker I absolutely agree with cherub721.
Referring to the moving of the bus I would use идёт in this particular case. Едет when someone is travelling in the bus
As a native Russian speaker, I would say "по улице едет автобус" and "по морю плывет пароход", but at the same time, I would say, "этот автобус идет до вокзала", "пароход идет в порт" (in these examples the destination is mentioned an the manner of movement becomes irrelevant). I would also say, "Смотри! Мой автобус идет" for "Look! My bus is coming". It is common to say "поезд идет без остановок" (= it's an express train") and "поезд идет со всеми остановками" (it is a local train), but if you are on a bus/train, you'd say, "автобус/поезд едет быстро" for "the bus/train is going fast". When describing regular trips, we say "автобусы ходят по расписанию" (buses run according to the schedule) and "автобусы ходят регулярно" (there is a regular bus service), but "автобусы ездят быстро" for "buses run fast".
To be fair, that word order sounds very odd in English - almost like Yoda talking ;)
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"синий" refers to a more true or royal blue, and "голубой" a lighter, sky blue
По улице means 'along/up/down the street'; 'outside' corresponds to "на улице / на дворе".
Is there a reason "There is a blue bus driving along the street" is not accepted?
From DL’s point of view, there seems to be too much liberty in this translation. Another possible reason is that DL matches the verb “to drive” only with «водить»/«вести», but not «ехать».
What gender is улица please? My dictionary does not condescend to give me the genders. What case does по take?
As the overwhelming majority of nouns ending in -а in the nominative singular and all of the nouns ending in - ица, улица is feminine. По requires putting the following noun in the dative case. After verbs скучать, тосковать and a few other verbs по can also be followed by a pronoun in the prepositional case (e.g. Она скучает/тоскует по вас = She misses you). A classical example of this usage is the Russian translation of “For whom the bell tolls” («По ком звонит колокол»).
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Folks, please, explain to me. I wrote "down the street goes a blue bus" and this is accepted. 1) Can I say " down the street is going a blue bus"? 2) In what cases will I not be able to use such an unordinary word order?
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На самом деле можно, но это несколько старомодно и больше характерно, как объяснил AndroidKanada, для поэтической формы или для газетных заголовков. В общем, если надо как-то громко преподнести мысль, чтобы на неё обратили внимание. В обыденной речи люди всё больше придерживаются нормального порядка слов.
Is going along? What does that mean? I am an American and I understand what this sentence is supposed to mean. BUT this is a HORRIBLE way of saying it and easily misunderstood. The bus is TRAVELING on the street. It is not on the sidewalk which is what along the street means. It is not being agreeable which is what going along means. A blue bus is traveling on the street.
