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- "Все всё знали."
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2163
When I listen to the sound of the individual words, the first two words are pronounced exactly the same. Is this correct?
When I listen to the entire sentence, there is a difference. I think there's some oddity in the single-word playback?
Hmm. Two years later (9/21/18), there's clearly a difference between все and всё in the word-by-word mode, and yet both words sound like всё in the intact sentence. Apparently the opposite of two years earlier! It's as if they fixed the individual word part, but counterproductively re-recorded the whole sentence with an a mispronunciation of the first word, as if it were всё!
727
for me there is a difference in pronunciation in slow version for both words, however, tome the last word seems to sound like znale. Is the last и supposed to sound like э
1324
Why is the transliteration "vsyo" for "всё" incorrect? The "correct" version given ("Vse vse znali") makes no distinction between the two words.
1667
It's clues like that which help listeners "fill in the blanks" - they might not hear things exactly, or the things might not be said clearly, but when you hear a clear 3rd person plural verb, you can retroactively recognize the subject.
1667
A declension table for:
Adjective: весь - "all, the whole"
Case | Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | Plural |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nom | весь | вся | всё | все |
Acc (Inan) | весь | всю | всё | все |
Acc (Anim) | всего́ | всю | всё | всех |
Gen | всего́ | всей | всего́ | всех |
Dat | всему́ | всей | всему́ | всем |
Inst | всем | всей, все́ю | всем | все́ми |
Prep | всём | всей | всём | всех |
1667
Look at the declension table I posted here (above, I think). все is plural. In English, "everyone/everybody" is a collective "plural" treated as a single entity, so it takes 3rd person singular verbs:
"Everyone knows" but "They know"