"Мой брат много раз читал эту книгу."
Translation:My brother has read this book many times.
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"эту книгу"... does it have to be translated as "this book"? Would "that book" be acceptable?
If not, how would "that book" be expressed in Russian (with a demonstrative pronoun in accusative)? "ту книгу"?
Can somebody explain to me why is the phrase in past simple wrong: "my brother read this book many times"??
Imagine it's a children's book and he's now grown. Or his tastes changed. Or countless other situations where this would be perfectly valid. Thankfully it's now accepted.
I noticed that Duolingo used present perfect which I don't think is technically correct but works either way. But it makes me wonder, does Russian even have a present perfect tense?
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can some type this then please? my brother has been reading this book for a large amount of time. (I am seeing много as "a large amount of" but maybe I am stretching the meaning of много too far)
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After много the genitive case must be used, right? If so, isn’t the genitive form of раз раза?
I think this is because "много раз" together means "many times" and it does not change the ending of "раз", but this is just mu guessing. Native speaker needed here :)
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I am not a native speaker, but as far as I know раз is genitiv plural.
Раз (nom.) - раза (or разу) (gen. sing.) - раз (gen. pl.)
