"Почему вы завтракаете после двенадцати?"

Translation: Why do you have breakfast after twelve?

[gosutag]

I ask myself the same question every day

[Gabor310373]

Are you polite with yourself?

[babak143903]

That is called "lunch".

[ColeDonnelly]

Breakfast for lunch is the best kind of lunch? So stop telling me how to live my life.

[belridetulo]

Dear Russian team breakfast can be a verb on its own!

[benograph]

In English? I am from London and I have never heard a native speaker use breakfast as a verb

[deactivated user]

@benograph Hi there. I myself am in the states and have never heard it used either. But it does appear to be used verbally as well:

" eat breakfast.
"she breakfasted on French toast and bacon" "

[Theron126]

Yes, report it. Although it's not very common nowadays.

[laurisvrijn]

Does reporting work in Russian? I've reported a fair amount but I've never gotten any news of something being approved. When reporting in other languages there's usually an update quite soon.

[benograph]

It does work, yes. I have got emails before about things I reported.

[Mike716479]

To breakfast is the correct form and pretty common. Have is redundant.

[japprends]

I wouldn't say "have" is redundant. I suspect this is another issue with regional variants. It is extremely rare for me to hear "breakfast" used as a standalone verb without an auxiliary. It's acceptable but in my experience sounds very awkward -- I know that is not true everywhere.

[Mike716479]

Agreed. Redundant was too strong. Both forms are acceptable.

[DoD54]

I breakfast.

[b.g.griffin]

WHY?? BECAUSE I CAN! MUHAHAHHAHAHA!!!1!!!one!!!

[Zarainia]

-- Katarina

[Rangaku69]

Because I've lost control of my life.

[Imnuts7]

Just have brunch

[Immanueldavid]

I have breakfast at twelve all the time

[ulgane]

Поскольку в Берлине это обычно ;)

[Brunobruniii]

Can I use зачем to ask this same question instead of почему? I never understood the difference, there is also А что question type

[Theron126]

Зачем asks about purpose, while почему asks about cause. So instead of asking "what is it that causes you to breakfast after twelve", you're asking "what are you hoping to achieve by breakfasting after twelve".

[Brunobruniii]

Thank you, a what if I ask the same question with А что

[grekhovki]

"А что" не подойдёт для этого предложения

[Brunobruniii]

Но что завтракаете

[grekhovki]

The sentence "Но что вы завтракаете после двенадцати?" is translated as "But what do you (exactly) have for breakfast after twelve?"

[Theron126]

Что means "what". I don't believe "а что" would work here, though I could be wrong on that.

[HoneyBeeOpal]

Why don't you mind your own business, Karen

[Roee304923]

What case is двенадцати and why?

[Shady_arc]

It is the Genitive, because of после.

Numbers пять, шесть...девятнадцать, двадцать, тридцать all use the same endings ь-ending feminine nouns do (e.g. мышь, мать, кровать, ночь). Their Genitive thus ends in -и.

[Roee304923]

I understand the letters now, but why is it genitive anyway? I really want to understand it rather than memorize. I always have no idea what case comes after words like после, до...

[Shady_arc]

Each preposition has its own case requirements. Some prepositions combine with a number of cases depending on the meaning.

While there might have been some deeper meaning behind the case assignment in the past, nowadays there does not seem to be any solid explanation why перед ("before, in front") is used with the Instrumental, whereas "до" ("before, until") and "после" (after) are used with the Genitive.

• apart from the fact that a lot of prepositions require the Genitive.

The exact list should be memorized eventually.

[Roee304923]

Thank you so much, you've helped me a lot :)

[Lucia380]

For prepositions this website may be helpful : http://www.study-languages-online.com/grammar/tables/prepositions-by-case

[Jeffrey855877]

The case/gender/number qualities of cardinal numbers is presented in an extremely murky way. It would be nice if there were a concise Tips and Notes section on how to deal with numbers.

Simple counting is not a problem - that much has been explained clearly. There are instances, however, where, as here, the case/gender/number of cardinal numbers is an issue, and the only handy references for looking them up is the ever-unreliable online translator.

For example, "a book about twenty-one boys" in Google Translate produced «книга о двадцати одном мальчике»

Since objects of «о» are in prepositional case, assuming the translation is correct (a big assumption), that appears to be:
двадцати: feminine singular prepositional or masculine & feminine nominative plural
одном: masculine or neuter singular instrumental
мальчике: masculine singular prepositional

I get the same result at https: //translate.yandex.ru/?lang=en-ru&text=a%20book%20about%20twenty-one%20boys

If you change "boys" to "girls", then the result is «двадцати одной девочке», with одном changing to одной, the instrumental case singular.

Needless to say, this is very confusing.

But rather than a long explanation, I'd simply like to know if there are any references or resources which explain clearly and concisely how Russian numbers function.

[Nana344213]

I am still confused too. But this person's post in the discussion forum is amazing.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/12185422

[Denise-Joe]

Don't tell me how to live my life.

[booshnok1]

Because some of us work nights and sleep into the afternoon.

[NapoLeon866729]

Because I'm still asleep before 12.

[5QXV3]

There's a wrong pronunciation. За́втракаете, not Завтрака́ете.

[JeffCat6]

Это второй завтрак

[chickenear]

Я

[russianmasterx]

how to adapt for :
-why DID you have
-why ARE you havING

?

[WolfTYD]

do you think you can use did extend of do

[dexterinthedark]

потому что завтрак - это новый обед

[Jeffrey855877]

If it's around noon, it's lunch, even if it's breakfast-type food. "I'm having eggs and bacon for lunch/dinner/supper."

[mortificator]

Завтрак - это первый приём пищи в течение дня (от слова "завтра"). Он может быть в 12, 15, 18... часов. :)

[dani.hr]

за́втракаете

[valentine0600]

Is it even considered a breakfast if its after twelve?

[Kirsten54022]

'Why are you having breakfast after twelve' was accepted. In English these have two different meanings, ie once off, 'are having', or usually 'do you have'. Can you make that distinction in Russian?

[ivan_leo]

It's called brunch

[deactivated user]

I guess it's not breakfast then.

[GabrielMil249176]

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