Re: Do Russians know all the grammatical terms?
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
I asked a friend what is the gerund form of "to run", and he gave me a strange look and said "what the f--k are you talking about?"
I got a similar response when I asked about participles.
In Russian school (Russian for Russian native speaker) all grammatical terms are quite different. And it is not only translation of the same term in Russian but it is different structure of the terms which reflects grammatical specificity of the Russian language. For example as I know there is no gerund form in Russian as in English. I have never heard "gerund form", "participles" and etc. with reference to Russian. Only Russian teachers who teach Russian to foreigners know that.
participle сущ.; грам. причастие; деепричастие
active participle — активное причастие
passive participle — пассивное причастие
dangling participle — грам. деепричастный оборот
misrelated participle — грам.; брит. деепричастный оборот
past participle — грам. причастие прошедшего времени
perfect participle — грам. причастие совершенного вида
present participle — грам. причастие настоящего времени
gerund сущ.; грам. герундий (отглагольная форма, выполняющая синтаксические функции существительного - в латыни, английском языке)
As you can see "participle" = "1) причастие; 2) деепричастие" it is difficult to recognize what is "participle" in Russian if you used to "1) причастие; 2) деепричастие".
cases:
именительный падеж — nominative, subjective case
родительный падеж - genitive (case)
дательный падеж — dative (case)
винительный падеж — accusative (case)
творительный падеж — instrumental (case)
предложный - Prepositional (case)
спряжение ср.; грам. conjugation
склонение ср.; грам. declension
наречие ср.; грам. adverb
Помните, глаголы первого спряжения, глаголы второго спряжения; проспрягать глагол (проспрягать глагол — to conjugate a verb, to inflect a verb).
Существительные первого склонения, второго, третьего; просклонять существительное (to decline a noun).
неопределенная форма глагола — infinitive
существительное ср.; грам. noun, substantive
отглагольное существительное — verbal noun
неисчисляемое существительное — mass noun, uncountable noun исчисляемое существительное — count noun
Re: Do Russians know all the grammatical terms?
On the subject
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
If I ask the average Russian person a question like "why is the instrumental case used here instead of the genitive case?" would they understand the question?
Probably yes, if you ask them the question in Russian, but not very likely to the point of being able to answer it. Unless they are 12 and have not forgotten by now all the rules they studied in school. But then again, you can never overestimate the depths of ignorance.