"Её дом стоит возле железной дороги."
Translation:Her house is near the railway.
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It's the same in French "chemin de fer", Spanish "ferrocarril", Turkish "demiryolu", Greek "σιδηρόδρομος" and Romanian "cale ferata". It's not that rare.
Same in Swedish as well, järnväg. Järn means iron. I didn't realise it until now when i thought about it.
yeah and you can even say it in French with the adjective form, Voie ferrée, which is literally the same as in Russian
What is that famous 20th-Century novel where the protagonist's house is very near a railway? His name is Григор and he imagines he turns into a bug. I think the author is German.
Yes, there is no difference. In Russian "дом" is for both of these words, the meaning depends on the context.
would you ever say "her home is near the railway" though? I feel like it's a very physical concept, which means "house" to me.
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I would use home or house, depending on whether I wanted to focus on the actual structure or the place lived in. I think there's probably a lot of regional variation for this one.
I think some of the answers are uncommon/awkward in English.
I would probably say "near train tracks" or "near the train tracks" if the person I was talking to could assume which tracks I meant.
Less commonly I could say "near railroad tracks" or "near the railroad tracks" but never "a railroad tracks". "Tracks" is plural. You don't say "a pants" or "a glasses".
"Her house is near the train tracks" sounds much better in English even though i would understand the intention of the translation. "Railway" sounds like an outdated adjective.
"Рядом" means "nearby", "возле" means "near [something]". There's also "рядом с" which also means "near [something]" and there's no significant difference between it and "возле". They are similar pretty much like "near", "next to" and "close to" are similar.
Why is стоит in the sentence pronounced “stow-it” but the individual word when selected sounds like “stah-eet”?
Does this mean that her house is near the railway station or the railway line? Near the railway doesn't mean much in English although I daresay it does in American
I think the voice is pronouncing стоит wrong. It should be сто'ит with emphasis on the и, but the voice says ст'оит with the emphasis on the о. Wouldn't that mean "costs"?
It would. The TTS is not perfect and makes mistakes. It's especially bad at understanding trough context which meaning of a word is implied in a given situation.