Question about Russian word order
I'm kind of looking into the accusative case at the moment quite a bit and I have an example that I'd like to discuss.
In the following sentence I think the word order can be changed:
Мальчик любит собаку
или
Собаку любит мальчик
These are both acceptable I think...
But if the subject and object in question is an inanimate masculine or neuter noun. Is it not possible to change the word order without either it not making sense? Or will it still make sense as the subject would always be an animate noun and therfor would change if the meaning was reversed.
((Apologies - I am pretty certain that the next two sentences are wrong, but I am not sure why...))
Мальчик любит хлеб
Can you still say:
Хлеб мальчик любит
?
What am i getting wrong here?
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Answers · 13
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Мальчик любит хлеб / Мальчик хлеб любит / Любит хлеб мальчик / Хлеб мальчик любит
You can put it in any way and it would make sense, but the common order is like in English: subject + predicate + object (мальчик любит хлеб). Usually (in writing, in speech it depends on intonation), if you change the common order, you ephasize the word, for example ''хлеб мальчик любит'' ephasizes that it's a bread (not smth else) what a boy likes.
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The sentence Хлеб мальчик любит is correct, but as it has already been said, the object here is emphasized. This phrase can be used only in a dialogue, where you either express kind of proud astonishment or try to refute someone's statement that the boy likes something else, not bread.
And EVEN if the subject and object in question is an inanimate masculine or neuter noun, it is still possible to change the word order without either it not making sense! But you can do it only in oral speech, or even in a written text if you want to represent some dialogue on condition that the context is clear.
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the order has no matter , the object and subject remain the same , changing of order refers just to style . there are subject an object is organized with the cases of nouns
Мальчик любит собаку =собаку любит мальчик
but сабакА любит мальчикА changes sense МальчикА is accusative case so a boy becomes an object here мальчикА любит собакА
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Все варианты верны))
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Master Yoda speaks like that!
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