easy russian continued
In this episode, people in Saint Petersburg were asked the question 'what inspires them'
One girl answers that her boyfriend inspires her, and then goes on to say:
Ради него хочется делать много всего хорошего
1. Ради него I assume is genitive, because of the word Ради?
2. In много всего хорошего,
3. I assume is genitive singular masculine?
4. What does всего exactly mean here? All?
5. And why is хорошего treated like an adjectival noun?
6. And what determines the gender of хорошего?
Another girl says this, after mentioning that people inspire her:
Своими поступками могут вдохновить на какую-то работу
1. Своими поступками is instrumental I assume, because those actions are instrumental in creating the work?
2. Why is какую-то conjugated as such? как-то means somehow right?
3. What case does на take in this case?
One man says:
В рамках чего?
Could you explain the logic in both рамках and чего as to their role in the structuring of grammar?
А вот что вдохновляет жителей Санкт-Петербурга узнаем прямо сейчас
Why is жителей conjugated as such, isnt it accusative plural? I guess because it is animated it is treated like a genitive plural?
Да, чего-то последнее время ничего
In this cause why is чего-то not что –то? Why чего? What does it mean here?
Я уже музыкой занимаюсь восемь лет
Занимаюсь needs to be instrumental and hence музыкой? Instrumental feminine?
Gosh many thanks for your time : ))))
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'Да, чего-то последнее время ничего' - here 'чего-то' is absolutely unnecessary) You can say 'Да, последнее время ничего' or 'Да, что-то в последнее время ничего' - all three sentences make sense, the same sense. It's one of the strange things in colloquial Russian: you can say 'Что-то не то' or 'Чего-то не того', and both mean 'Something's wrong'. Technically, the first sentence is more grammatically correct, second one isn't, but it's allowed in colloquial speech.
// Занимаюсь needs to be instrumental and hence музыкой? Instrumental feminine? - absolutely correct)
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'что вдохновляет жителей' - look at the comment above) 'вдохновить кого?' (animate object) - 'жителей', accusative plural. You should know that inanimate accusative = inanimate nominative, and animate accusative = animate genitive, both singular and plural. Nom. (кто? что?) житель, жители, стол, столы; Gen. (кого? чего?) жителя, жителей, стола, столов; Acc. (кого? что?) жителя, жителей, стол, столы.
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'В рамках' [в (чём?) рамках, prepositional case] - it's something like idiom, I don't know exactly how it's called ib English. It can be translated 'within' or 'in the context of', or 'as part of'. To undestand it you should literally imagine 'рамки' - phrame (like photophrame) or borders (like in table). 'В рамках' - inside this frame or borders, inside the limits (that's why we use prepositional case whith 'в'). Could you imagine that?) Add here another phrase: 'выйти за рамки', it's the opposite - when you have some limits, but know you're outside them. And now examples (long sentences, cause it's used in formal speech): Within clear guidelines, managers can use their budget to entertain clients. - 'В рамках четких рекомендаций менеджеры могут использовать свой бюджет для развлечения клиентов.' // In the context of the federal programme on the culture of Russia (2006–2011), an interdisciplinary project is being carried.. 'В рамках федеральной программы по культуре России ведется междисциплинарный проект..' // So it's formal phrase leaked to the spoken Russian) And about cases: в рамках (чего?) программы, genitive case. This case is often used after 'of' in translations.
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Своими поступками is instrumental - nice explanation) I can't explain it in correct terms, so I just give an example) Instrumental case is here becase of the verb 'вдохновить' - we can ask three questions with this verb, using different cases:
- вдохновить кого? (accusative, animate object) - вдохновить тебя, вдохновить человека - to inspire some person;
- вдохновить на что? (accusative, indirect object, if I'm not mistaken) - вдохновить на подвиг, вдохновить на действие - to inspire to some action (you have learnt all the russian verbs in two weeks, and now I want to learn it to, so you inspired me to learn (for learning?))
- вдохновить чем? (instrumental) - вдохновить своими успехами, вдохновить поступками - to inspire by their progress (in previous example - you inspired me by learning verbs in such a short time).
Interesting, that you could say 'I'm inspired by you' - 'Я вдохновлён тобой' - here the object became instrumental) It's passive.
'какую-то' - it's not accusative for 'как-то' (it can't be conjugated), it's accusative for 'какая-то', the adjective. 'Какая-то работа' = 'some work'. Again, it's colloquial. She could say 'вдохновить на работу' - that people do something, and she think: hmm, they're so cool, I want to do some work too. Not a specific work, but some kind of work (unknown kind for us, listeners).
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Ради него - yes, it's genitive because of the preposition 'ради': ради чего? - ради победы, ради любви, ради безопасности; ради кого? - ради меня, ради них, ради людей.
'много всего хорошего - it's genitive singular, but neuter, because it's impersonal. It's like 'to do him much good', or 'to do a lot of great things for him' (because of he inspires me)
'всего' here doesn't exactly means 'all' here, but it's close. In this sentence there are both 'много' и 'всякого', it's redundancy. She could say 'делать много хорошего', and that would be enough. But it's colloquial Russian - maybe she want to show, how much she is inspired, or maybe it's just because of fast speech.
--- why is хорошего treated like an adjectival noun and what determines the gender of хорошего? - again, it's impersonal (I'm not sure I use this word right :)) There is some good thing - anything, like to make a gift, or to make breakfast, or to support in bad situation - in general, good thing, or 'что-то хорошее', 'нечто хорошее'. There is no specific subject, so we choose neuter 'хорошее'. And since we don't have a subject, this adjective becomes an adjectival noun.
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