"Ты записываешь это в книге."
Translation:You are writing this in the book.
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From my understanding, запишываешь means to take notes, write something down, or record something in writing. Пишешь is to write as in writing a book or an article. Maybe they make this distinction based on some sense of difference in formality or purpose or difficulty involved with what is being written.
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Into is used more when movement is involved. I put a bookmark INTO the book I am making notes IN the book
It's just customary to say "write it down" rather than "write down it." Same with "write this down," "write that down...."
However, if what's being written is not being described as "it," this," etc. then it may be equally common to use either word order: "write the details down" or "write down the details," "write her name down" or "write down her name."
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Would it be possible to use accusative here? In my mind, writing it down means transfering it from my head into the book, so it is directional. A bit like translating, transfering something into another language, where in Russian we also use accusative.
Once it is written down and can be found in the book, that's where I'd use the prepositional.
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It sounds like knigi to me. Is the final vowel pronounced like it is in the nominative, or is the recording wrong, or is my hearing inadequate/defective?
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Is this supposed to be narration or giving someone a heads up of what they will be doing?
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And it does seem like this should be книгу (accus), since the words are going into the book. Another person asked that question above, but no answer yet.
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