Что значит "Ничего! Так себе!" в этих примерах?
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Paola, hard to say.
In the Russian as it is used by people around me (Moscow) "Ничего" is sort of 'nothing bad', 'not bad'.
Depending on the tone it may mean rether sceptical 'not bad' (acceptable, but nothing to say about it) or more enthusiastic.
"Так себе" is also something rather average, but with rather negative shade: nothing impressive.
"Ничего! Так себе!" with two exclamation marks thus makes no sense: this two things have sligtly oppostie meaning:)
Stand alone "Так себе" makes no sense with an exclamation mark as well.
But:
In past 'так себе' was used somewhat differently (even though in most cases along the same lines of 'nothing outstanding' - but in ways it is not used today.) - and can easily be used differently in some other cities today. I even came across at its combination with 'ничего' in old books - but in all cases but one it is rather sceptical. And never in an exclamation!
"Ничего, так себе теорийка... Une teorie comme une autre" (Достоевский, Преступление и наказание)
I can imagine a dialect hwere it can be used as (rather positive) 'вполне себе' as well. But I've never heard this:)
In the Russian as it is used by people around me (Moscow) "Ничего" is sort of 'nothing bad', 'not bad'.
Depending on the tone it may mean rether sceptical 'not bad' (acceptable, but nothing to say about it) or more enthusiastic.
"Так себе" is also something rather average, but with rather negative shade: nothing impressive.
"Ничего! Так себе!" with two exclamation marks thus makes no sense: this two things have sligtly oppostie meaning:)
Stand alone "Так себе" makes no sense with an exclamation mark as well.
But:
In past 'так себе' was used somewhat differently (even though in most cases along the same lines of 'nothing outstanding' - but in ways it is not used today.) - and can easily be used differently in some other cities today. I even came across at its combination with 'ничего' in old books - but in all cases but one it is rather sceptical. And never in an exclamation!
"Ничего, так себе теорийка... Une teorie comme une autre" (Достоевский, Преступление и наказание)
I can imagine a dialect hwere it can be used as (rather positive) 'вполне себе' as well. But I've never heard this:)
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Что значит "Ничего! Так себе!" в этих примерах?
hmmm. like "nothing special, so-so."0
You can't use "Ничего" and "Так себе" in same sentence, because they have opposite meaning.
Ничего = Not bad. (but only in case of mark; normally this word means "nothing").
Так себе = So-so.
I think in this exercise you needed to underline one of two marks.
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this means a little better than worse. так себе expresses biased attitude
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