"We do not like school."
Translation:Мы не любим школу.
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Why don't you spell the word "rocks" as "rox" in English? "-cks" makes the "x" sound anyway. It's the same question as why don't you spell нравится with a letter ц.
Also -ся/-сь is a reflexive ending on a reflexive verb, so it stays consistent in the verb conjugation.
нравиться to be liked
нравлюсь I am liked
нравишься you (familiar) are liked
нравится he/she/it is liked
нравимся we are liked
нравитесь you (plural/formal) are liked
нравятся they are liked
The "ця" combination doesn't naturally exist in Russian. It is common in Ukrainian and Belarusian, though.
when you say you like something, when do you use нравится vs любить?
So is a meaning like Мы не любим школу normal to use when to tell "we don't like the school" as in the example here? And not the word for "like"?
(I mean, if it wasn't a answer to a question about actually "loving" the school then, but rather just an random expression for "uh... we (really) don't like the school!"?)
Нам не нравится школa...? In English ts (in Russian, тс) sounds like ц... Notice я in this case does not sound as ya, but more like ah. So -тся does sound awefully like ца to a non native Russian-language learner like me!
Why the Nominative of "school" here: "Нам не нравится школа", but the Accusative here: "Мы не любим школу"? I wrote: "школу" with "нравится", and was marked wrong: "нам не нравится школу".
Essentially, it's about the word order and how нравится works.
With "Нам не нравится школа" you are saying "To us is not pleasing school" - Or "School is not pleasing to us" School takes the nominative because school is the sentence and нравится is conjugated based on that alone.
With "Мы не любим школу," the subject is "we" and the direct object is school. "We do not love school."
Because you're saying you don't <<verb>> something, not negating something.
"Не" and "Нет" are different. You can say "I am not reading" (Я не читаю) and there's nothing to negate - even adding книгу at the end doesn't negate a book, it negates reading a book.
If you said "There is no book" you'd write "Там нет книги." - and нет works as the opposite of есть (in this case meaning, there is - not to eat.)
Ok so, i put нам не нравится школа which was correct and it puts me as another solution Мы не любим школу. So my question is why in the first case школ is in genitive and why in the second one in accusative?
Im not a native speaкer but нравится taкes nomitive because it means to please , where любить то like or love. Мне нравится школа - lueralky school us pleasung to me. Is that correct, native speakers?
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Школа is the subject. Нам is the object, in dative case "to us." The subject of the sentence takes nominative case. Школа не нравится нам. (Word order isn't strict, in Russian.) In the second option, мы is the subject, and школу is the object, in accusative case. Мы не любим школу.
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Любишь = you (singular familiar) love
Любите = you (singular formal or plural) love
Любим = we love
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The last word in a Russian sentence is the "news" or the emphasis. So Нам школа не нравится. "We do not like school."
Why does школа become школу.. If you say you like or don't like something does have to follow with accusative?
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The only time nominative case is used is when the noun is the subject of the sentence. So yes, accusative case is used for objects in many sentences, and for masculine inanimate or neuter nouns, accusative = nominative. Школа is a feminine noun, so it declines to школу in accusative
um it says любят in the hint but the answer is любви so i guess the hint is wrong and should be fixed.
It's not an answer. Они любят, мы любим. As the lessons advance, the hints are, well hints.
