"Он идёт в наш дом со своим стулом."
Translation:He is going to our house with his chair.
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If I had a dollar for every time I said this sentence in my life...I'd have a dollar
If he were entering by means of a motorized chair, it'd just be «Он идёт в наш дом свои́м сту́лом.», without the «со».
A standard wheelchair is called an «инвали́дная коля́ска», literally “invalid carriage”; or, less frequently, «инвали́дное кре́сло», literally “invalid armchair”.
Он идёт в наш дом своим стулом won't work even if the chair is motorized. You would say Он едет в наш дом на своём стуле
Ah yes that makes sense! Wheelchairs use vehicle verbs. Thanks for saving the logic!
On the other hand, I guess своём стуле is prepositional? Does one always use prepositional when driving something? That is confusing. I mean you eat with a fork in instrumental case, but you drive a car in prepositional...
What if this person uses different mobility options including leg braces and a walker. If he were using these instead of a wheelchair, which gets the vehicle traveling verb and prepositional case, would you use instrumental case? I'm guessing without «с/со».
Also, due to cognates and inevitable use:
Inválid (with the 'a' like in "apple") means not valid. Ínvalid (with an a like "uh") is a dated and nowadays rather rude term for a handicapped person.
In Britain, at least, 'handicapped' is now considered rather rude by disabled people. 'Invalid', however, is, to the best of my knowledge, still an acceptable term for someone who is actually ill and adopting the 'sick role' (i.e. not undertaking their usual activities because of their illness.)
Where I live, the person comes before the disability.
A "person with a disability" is the preferred term, because referring to someone as "disabled" amounts to labelling them as the disability. It's like calling someone with cancer, "cancerous".
Maybe it means we are in the backyard of the house and he is bringing his foldable outdoor chair or camping chair.
"Everyday" is an adjective, as in "an everyday occurence". You need the adverbial phrase "every day".
Those are phrases that act as adverbs, in this case describing the frequency of the action.
this is what happens you hang out on a chat site based around learning foreign grammatical structures.
Reported. I first thought, "Well, идти and not войти (or входить)." People do move (changed apartments) from time to time. So maybe he is not quite at the entrance yet, but it is clear that he is going "into" the house with his chair and does not intend to stop at the entrance. Whether we use "to" or "into" depends upon how close.
Wow! I can't believe I got this right :D This must mean that I've actually learned some Russian \o/
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он идёт домой "he is going home", but он идёт в наш дом "he is going (in)to our house" (and он дома "he is at home")
Am I the only person who still can't hear the difference between стулом and столом?
If you listen to this recording it sounds so clearly like an "o" to me
Ok, after listening to a few more examples, here, I believe, is the explanation: Стулом has the stress on the first syllable, even if the у is pronounced kind of between "oh" and "oo". The о, being unstressed, is pronounced like an а. Столом is stressed on the second syllable, so the first о is pronounced like an а, giving a much more "Stallone" type prounciation.
Immagine being at a party, and someone offer you a seat, and you say:
No thanks I brought mine from home
It can be a reference to a classic book of Soviet humor, Ilf & Petrov's "The twelve chairs". The adventures of the antihero Ostap Bender were adapted and filmed many times in many countries, from Brazil to Iran, including a version by Mel Brooks.
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Свой is a reflexive possessive pronoun. I am with my chair, you/we/they are with your/our/their chair, she/he/it with her/his/its chair, all of this: "со своим стулом"
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There isn'n "Us", there is "Our" "Our" is possessive pronoun. Person is only noun or personal pronoun.
Listen for the stress. Столом is stressed on the last syllable (like "Stallone"); стулом is stressed on the first (like "stool 'em").
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What is в наш дом? I thought it was plural genitive but it wouldn't make sense, plus it's translated as singular. Help please
It is in accusative singular which is equivalent to nominative singular for this example since дом is masculine inanimate and наш, follows the noun. Also, в + accusative to indicate direction: to our house
Is it a Russian tradition? When you invite someone to your place, you don't provide chairs? So when invited, I am supposed to arrive with my own chair? Good to know!
Couldn't 'home' and 'house' be interchangeable here? i.e. He is going to our home, vs house? Is there a significant difference?
Fine! He goes TO our house ,without entering it,with HIS OWN CHAIR ,not with simebidy else's.
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in a previous exercise, я иду в кафе со своей сестрой и со своим братом can only be "am going" instead of "i go"(as if absolutely necessitated ходить), yet this one has the flexibility of either "goes" or "is going". As in, going to our place with a chair this one time(strictly идти) can be either in simple present or present progressive.
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I think that what's important is to understand that if идти is used, then the action is taking place in that moment, whereas if ходить is used, the action is a generic or habitual, not strictly related to "now". So you can use both "I go" and "I'm going", but the latter overlaps the meaning of иду ("I'm going now" works, but "I'm going every day" doesn't make sense), whereas the former can be both иду and хожу ("i go now" and "i go every day" both work I think).
Why would anyone go to someone else's house and take their chair? Or is this typical nonsense?
