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- Lesson 2
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- You have just learned a few Russian sentences.
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- " student. (Eng. I am a student. ) etc.
- One can notice that it is a quite exceptional sentence, because it does not contain a verb (' Eng. I).
- Note, that in Russian ' is not written in capital letter.
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- Mne ... let. (Eng. I am ... years old.)
- This sentence does not contain a verb again (mne Eng. me; let Eng. years).
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- Men' zovut ... (Eng. My name is ...)
- There is no 1 to1 correspondence between the words in the Russian sentence and the translation (men' Eng. me).
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- Zdravstvujte ! (Eng. Good morning or Good afternoon )
- There is no 1 to 1 correspondence again. You can use the Russian greeting zdravstvujte from the morning to the evening.
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- All Russian sentences above have a different structure than in English.
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- " hivu v Bel%gii. (Eng. I live in Belgium.)
- Please note,
- |to Bel%gi'.
- " hivu v Bel%gii.
- You have to use the Locative case of the noun in this type of sentences.
- Example,
- Nominative: Pol%wa Bel%gi' Norvegi' Dani'
- Locative: Pol%we Bel%gii Norvegii Danii.
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- The structure of this sentence resembles more its English translation than the rest of sentences we have learned during this lesson.