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At the moment, I'm living in Moscow and working as an English teacher. I'd like some help with my spoken Russian and conversation. I've recently completed a Master's degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Illinois with a particular focus in Russian social and cultural history. In addition to Russian, I'd like to learn to read French German to use as a research language. I'm happy to communicate with people through Skype. Please send me a note here and I'll pass along my contact info.
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    November 7, 2010
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    Thank you to unDEFER for correcting my spelling. My original post follows, but I feel others in the thread have answered the question more clearly. As others have indicated, yes - this is a correct sentence. I'll try to describe why it's correct.... The easiest explanation is that у меня есть is a stock phrase for "I have". If you're not happy with that explanation, read on... Technically, a more literal translation of the phrase is: "there is to me" which gives a hint as to why the phrase looks the way it does. Меня is the Genitive form of the word я and literarily means "to me." The choice of the Genitive case makes sense since it is often used to denote possession in other Russian sentences in roughly the same way that English uses the apostrophe s ('s). The thing being possessed in this phrase goes into Nominative (in this example собака) which seems strange because an English speaker would naturally think of the dog as the direct object of the sentence, but in Russian it actually acts as the subject of the sentence - (hence its declination into Nominative.) A similar situation can be seen in the sentence Мне пять лет which means "I am five years old." but which technically translates as "to me there are 5 years." Because the phraseology of some Russian expressions is different than in English, the cases of certain words will sometimes appear odd. Hope this helps, or at least gets you closer to the best answer.
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    June 28, 2010
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    The correct answers are 1 A 2 A 3 A Note that the placement of the apostrophe in the third example indicates that the applications are plural. Thus there are multiple applications which each have multiple interfaces. We could also say: The application's interface (one application which has one interface) The applications' interface (multiple applications which share the same interface) The applications' interfaces (multiple applications which each have multiple interfaces)
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    June 27, 2010
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    Привет,

    Все понимаю, но есть орфографические ошибки. Верная орфография по aнглиский:


    "I want to make foreign friends and learn more languages and more things about different countries.  Every subject can be discussed."

    Удачий  


    Olesya's notebook entry: Jun 23, 2010

    I want make foreigns friends and lrarn more languages and more things about differents countries . evry subject can be discuted.
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    June 23, 2010
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    This comes from an American dictionary: USAGE A distinction has traditionally been drawn between nauseated, meaning ‘affected with nausea,’ and nauseous, meaning ‘causing nausea.’ Today, however, the use of nauseous to mean ‘affected with nausea’ is so common that it is generally considered to be standard.
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    August 23, 2008
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    This comes from an American dictionary USAGE A distinction has traditionally been drawn between nauseated, meaning ‘affected with nausea,’ and nauseous, meaning ‘causing nausea.’ Today, however, the use of nauseous to mean ‘affected with nausea’ is so common that it is generally considered to be standard.
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    August 23, 2008
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