"Дай мне какой-нибудь еды."
Translation:Give me some food.
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I know the какой-нибудь is the point of the exercise, but doesn't the fact that the food is in the genitive case already indicate 'some' (an unspecified quantity - partitive genitive)?
For example:
купи мне сахара - buy me some sugar Хочешь воды? - do you want some water?
I understand the partitive isn't as popular as it was, but it's still used in everyday Russian. Worth a mention in the notes somewhere?
I think (I repeat: think, as I am not sure) какой-нибудь is used to emphasize the fact that you'll take anything, or some of anything because of еда being in the partitive genitive.
That seems to be the sense of the Russian, but the "official" English answer does not really convey it well.
I believe the real translation is "Give me some kind of food". This exercise is misleading.
Мнение носителя английского:
"Give me some food." Дай мне еды (количество (и вид) еды не важно)
"Give me any food." Дай мне какой-то еды (вид еды не важен)
Надеюсь, что Вам поможет.
І am confused now. In an earlier exercise about buying some bread the "correct" answer displayed had bread in the accusative, "какой-нибудь хлеб" which I thought should have been the genitive "хлеба." Which is correct?
In my view the use of the partative genitive already means 'some'. One other way of saying that without the genitive would be 'какой-нибудь хлеб', however as has already been shown, 'какого-нибудь хлеба' could also be considered correct, particularly for emphasis, like 'give me some bread, any bread!' The bottom line is that both accusative and genitive versions are both fine and would be understood. That's the important thing. :)
I think it's more like хлеба in the partitive is talking about the amount, and какого-то is about the kind of bread it is
Here какой-нибудь IS the feminine genitive form for какой (which coincidentally looks the same as masculine nominative). This is therefore in agreement with the feminine genitive singular еды.
С Рождеством!
what is the difference between Дай мне немного еды / Дай мне какой-нибудь еды
My understanding is that the first says ‘give me a little food’ while the second says ‘give me some of any type of food’.
No, that would be like saying ‘something/anything of food’, but you can say ‘что-нибудь есть’ to mean ‘something/anything to eat’. Какой-нибудь here means ‘some/any kind of food.’
And don't forget about that ЕСТЬ - форма глагола БЫТЬ в настоящем времени.
