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I‘ve recently learnt that in Old Russian for directions, in a sense of „towards“ and „to/into“, the dative (without preposition) was used (how common this usage was I don‘t know). Unfortunately, I ...
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I‘ve read the following sentence: Я не кровный родственник этой семье, но, наверное, именно поэтому я могу смотреть на всё со стороны. Here, семья stands in the dative, instead of the genitive. Is ...
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I found that sometimes in the Russian language, people use the dative case in the accusative case. Here is an example: как ты мог так поступить со мной? How could you do this to me? Here they used the ...
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At least on Google Translate, "мне всё мало" is "I'm not enough", which is something I cannot understand. Judging from other uses of the dative case and the word мне, I understand ...
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In the following sentence: Одна из вещей, которая делает Фенча немного сложнее, - это количество неправильных глаголов. Если вы изучаете такой язык, как испанский, правила довольно просты, но когда ...
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I'm trying to understand why the dative is used here (last verse of the 1977 Soviet anthem): В победе бессмертных идей коммунизма Мы видим грядущее нашей страны И Красному знамени славной Отчизны Мы ...
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I recently learned the verb нуждаться (to need), and noticed that to say I need something, one would say мне нужно ..., so I is in dative case. So how come for this verb, the speaker is in Dative case?...
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В русском языке, как правило, косвенное дополнение (в дательном падеже) предшествует прямое дополнение, например, в следующем предложении: Я подарила брату чемодан. Если меняешь стандартный порядок ...
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What does the expression кому обещать эту жизнь без потерь mean? Is the subject 'кому who' even though it is in the dative case? Who can promise this life without care? or is it To who can a promise ...
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I understand why the dative is used in this sentence, given the presence of the preposition по "Я спала два раза по одному часу" but I don't understand why it's not used in the following "Я спала ...
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In a phrase посадку на Луну предшествовали тренироваочные полеты The ending -у of the word "посадка" does not sound right for me. What is the proper ending to use in such case?
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I'm supposed to answer the following question with the word in parenthesis. Какому гостю вы показываете новые картины? (иностранный) So I see that the perfective verb, показываете, is transitive and ...
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I recently wrote an email in which I wanted to thank to people and wrote Спасибо болшгое, оба вас. This was described as "scatalogical" by one of the recipients who suggested instead Вам обоим, ...
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I've been taught that у and к both translate to "at" (as in chez in French). "У меня есть книга" = "At me, there's a book" = "I have a book" "Я к врачу ...
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In the following sentence, why don't we use the infinitive - играть? What is the logic behind игре? Я Учу игре на гитаре.
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