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Now this one was tough and a little annoying because the guy kept saying kak-to all the time…
Иногда, бывает, идёшь и видишь улыбающегося человека и как-то самому хочется улыбаться или, наоборот, как-то угрюмого и как-то тоже настроение падает. Ну, как-то смотришь на людей, ну, понимаешь, что у тебя также настроение как-то этого зависит
First of all, he uses идёшь, видишь which in this case would correspond to something like 'you know you sometimes see someone smiling…' right?
1. Самому is in this case dative right? Because of хочется?
2. Угрюмого in this case works with the verbs идёшь и видишь seen earlier? And because the человек is animated we have an accusative masculine treated like a genitive masculine?
3. Why падает? Did he suddenly shift the narrative to he/her? Rather than you (идёшь, видишь)
4. на людей? на is prepositional right? Or is it dative, as in to whom one looks at (кому)? My table says prepositional plurals end with х, Both adjectives and nouns
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3. Why падает? - Падает настроение - get gloomy
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First of all, he uses идёшь, видишь which in this case would somehow (:-E) correspond to something like 'you know you sometimes see someone smiling…' right?
бывает is "it happens that...". It is a repetetive form of 'to be'
2-nd person here feels like... like there is not a difference between 1st and 2nd person anymore:) Because we both are identifying ourselves with the character. You are right.
1. Самому is in this case dative right? Because of хочется?
Yep.
Мне хочется. I feel an urge to smile. Мне самому хочется. I myself feel an urge to smile
Самому хочется. (without 'мне', 'тебе') It is impossible in English I think?
Feels like copying someone became a part of the emotion described by хочется:)
Works perfecly with this 2-nd person used for not exactly 2nd person. But can work with other persons too.
2. Угрюмого in this case works with the verbs идёшь и видишь seen earlier? And because the человек is animated we have an accusative masculine treated like a genitive masculine?
Yes.
".... or, conversely, a sulky one..."
3. Why падает? Did he suddenly shift the narrative to he/her? Rather than you (идёшь, видишь)
"настроение падает" - "[your] mood falls down". "Mood" can подниматься rise or падать fall.
4. на людей? на is prepositional right? Or is it dative, as in to whom one looks at (кому)? My table says prepositional plurals end with х, Both adjectives and nouns
Accusative.
"На" combines with Prep. and Acc.
"на [prep]" works as an adverbial of place. "На людях" means "in public".
"на [acc]" means that action is directed at something. Like "еду на Филиппины" or 'looking'.
бывает is "it happens that...". It is a repetetive form of 'to be'
2-nd person here feels like... like there is not a difference between 1st and 2nd person anymore:) Because we both are identifying ourselves with the character. You are right.
1. Самому is in this case dative right? Because of хочется?
Yep.
Мне хочется. I feel an urge to smile. Мне самому хочется. I myself feel an urge to smile
Самому хочется. (without 'мне', 'тебе') It is impossible in English I think?
Feels like copying someone became a part of the emotion described by хочется:)
Works perfecly with this 2-nd person used for not exactly 2nd person. But can work with other persons too.
2. Угрюмого in this case works with the verbs идёшь и видишь seen earlier? And because the человек is animated we have an accusative masculine treated like a genitive masculine?
Yes.
".... or, conversely, a sulky one..."
3. Why падает? Did he suddenly shift the narrative to he/her? Rather than you (идёшь, видишь)
"настроение падает" - "[your] mood falls down". "Mood" can подниматься rise or падать fall.
4. на людей? на is prepositional right? Or is it dative, as in to whom one looks at (кому)? My table says prepositional plurals end with х, Both adjectives and nouns
Accusative.
"На" combines with Prep. and Acc.
"на [prep]" works as an adverbial of place. "На людях" means "in public".
"на [acc]" means that action is directed at something. Like "еду на Филиппины" or 'looking'.
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Thank you much again!
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Haha, it's just an annoying filler, this 'как-то')
Yes, that's you-forms: you see, you know.. But it doesn't mean that exactly YOU make this actions; these forms are also used to describe your own experience, and at the same time to say that any other person could have the same experience. You can replace all this verbs with 'someone see', 'someone know', etc. You-forms just help to immerse yourself in the story)
'самому хочется улыбаться' - yes, it's dative because of 'хочется', but! It's really interesting example, cause both this verbs have dative objects. So 'мне хочется улыбаться тебе' would have two objects, both dative: 'мне хочется' + 'улыбаться тебе'. The first one is more like passive voice: 'It's wanted by me to smile to you'. Just the word order help us to take this sentence write. One note: if 'хочется' is used without a pronoun, it usually means 'I want', cause we can't be sure what other people want)
'Угрюмого' works with noun 'человека' and take its case (accusative masculine, animated, that's the same as genitive masculine, yes), he just omits the word 'человека' because of the context - we know, that he compares 'улыбающегося человека' and 'угрюмого человека'. And the noun, for its part, works with verb 'видишь'. Видишь кого? человека; человека какого? угрюмого.
'настроение падает' - it's not about a person who go and see, it's independent expression. It means that he's now in a bad mood (like a grumpy person he sees), or literally 'mood is falling'.
'смотришь на людей' - there is no mistake. 'Смотреть на (кого? что?)', accusative = to look at smb or smth. Prepositional plurals end with х, that's right. But the question 'кому? чему?' is for dative)
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