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Hello! I'm currently learning colours in Japanese and I've found conflicting information on the internet as to how to say that an object is a certain colour. My understanding is that あか, あお, しろ, くろ, きいろ, and ちゃいろ are nouns, and you can form adjectives by adding い at the end. For all of the other colours, you add の if you want to use them as adjectives. Now, why is it じてんしゃはあかいです but じてんしゃはきいろです? Shouldn't it also be きいろい, I mean the adjective form? I'm a bit puzzled. Hope someone could shed some light on this. Thank you in advance!
May 28, 2026 8:43 AM
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How do you say ''Listen and repeat!'' and ''Listen and answer!'' in Modern Standard Arabic?
December 23, 2014
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Does the rule of not pronouncing the tanwiin at the end of the sentence apply to all sentences? I came across a grammar rule, which says that any tanwiin or short vowel coming last in a sentence, should not be pronounced. Does this rule apply to all sentences? I am using Rosetta Stone and it gives the following examples: البِنْتُ تَأكُلُ خُبْزً. (Last word is pronounced as ''khubzan'', that is INCLUDING the tanwiin. Is that correct or incorrect?) الرَّجُلُ يَقودُ سَيَّارَةً. (pronounced as ''sayyaaratan'') هُناكَ كِتابٌ واحِدٌ. (Pronounced as ''wahidun'', but according to the above mentioned rule, shouldn'it it be pronounced ''wahid''?) But later on, in some senteces the last tanwiin is not pronounced, for example: القِطَّةُ نائِمَهٌ. (Last word is written with a tanwiin, but the software pronounces it as na'imat.) هُناكَ أربَعةُ مَفاتيح. (In this case, the last word has no tanwiin and is pronounced as ''mafaatiih'' or ''mafaatiiha'', couldn't really figure it out.)
November 26, 2014
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Can anyone help me understand colours and plural? I have this language learning software called Rosetta Stone and I am currently trying to learn Modern Standard Arabic. While learning colours and plurals I got a bit stuck. I have the following examples: al-bayDu ahmaru (the red eggs) al-kuratu hamraa'u (the red balls) as-sayaratu humru (the red cars) Did I miss something? Aren't these all feminine nouns? As far as I know ahmaru is the form for masculine singular. Why not use hamraa'u in all 3 cases? I am very confused. And another example that got me very confused: al-bayDatu sa''iyratu (the small eggs) al-bayDu azraqu (the blue eggs) What is the difference between al-bayDatu and al-bayDu? Apparently both nouns are plural and mean the same thing - eggs. Then why the different forms? Any help will be greately appreciated. But please focus on Modern Standard Arabic, not its dialects, as the endings (and sometimes the words themselves) differ greately and that will only get me even more confused. :-)
November 17, 2014
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смотреть, посмотреть, посматривать Can someone please explain to me the difference between the following verbs: смотреть, посмотреть and посматривать? Some sentences containing these verbs would also help a lot.
June 16, 2011
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What is the difference between ехать, поехать and доехать? Thanks in advance. :-)
April 30, 2010
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need help with this translation Can anyone give me information about train no.100 Uzhgorod - Kiev Passenger Railway Station? Is it a direct train or do you have to change the trains in order to reach the final destination? How much does a sleeping car ticket cost? How about a couchette car ticket? On the internet I saw that this is a "firmeny fast" train. Are the conditions in it good? I am also interested about train no. 082. --- Kiev Passenger Railway Station = Киев-Пассажирский sleeping car = спальный вагон couchette car = купе firmeny fast= фирменный скорый@ Andrew: I need it translated. ;-)
February 23, 2010
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need a Russian translation of these 2 sentences 1. I am definitely not into shallow people. 2. One of a kind. » about a person Спасибо заранее. :-)Единственный (-ая) и неповторимый (-ая). » Wouldn't that be "one and only"? Does it make any sense if you say "Я единственный и неповторимый"? For example, I feel a small difference between "one of a kind" and "one and only". I have no idea if it is the same in Russian.About "one of a kind" - it is part of a description. For example: One of a kind. Tall, handsome, inteligent and definitely not into shallow people. Hope it is more clear now.
September 12, 2009
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Cyrillic transliteration Can somebody transliterate the following English word into Russian letters? REFINED DEMON Thanks a lot in advance.
September 5, 2009
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Do you have any photos of them? If yes, please send them to me. I don't know if "them" has different forms in Russian for feminine and masculine, but if so, please write them both.
September 1, 2009
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