Questions related to the negation.
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Answering negative questions with one word (да/нет) - are there rules?
If the question is formulated with negation to the verb, and it is answered with one word: да or нет, what is the rule of how to understand it:
Imagine that the question is a logical expression (no matter does
it have negation or not in it);…
farfareast
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Can you provide two sentences that mean the same, but one sentence is formally a negation of another?
Does there exist in Russian a pair of sentences which are the formal negation of each other, but have the same meaning?
Gangnus
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Negative prefixes не- vs. ни-
This is the kind of things I know how to use in practice, but would not manage to explain to someone in theory.
Некогда, нечего, нечем, не с кем... they differ from никогда, ничего, ничем, ни с кем in usage.
Мне некогда - I have no time (literally…
swrutra
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Negation of feminine nouns in the accusative case
The rule given here is that the accusative case is used for animate/inanimate objects. If animate that means using the genitive case, if the sentence is positive, right?
Example:
(Masculine) я вижу кота
(Feminine) я вижу кошки
But what…
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Is the sentence „Птицы не любят такого леса“ grammatically correct, and why?
Несмотря на тишину и покой, птицы не любят такого леса и предпочитают
держаться в молодых зарослях.
link (Mamin-Sibiryak)
Despite being a Russian speaker myself, I have some trouble with the accusative/genitive.
I assume Mamin-Sibiryak is a…
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