Help for translation

My current thread is very long.
Therefore I thought it would better to create a new thread. If the moderator wants move this one to the old thread, it is fine by me.
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I have friend whose name is Jessica Pettersson.

Джессика Петерссон

Have I written it correctly?
Please correct it. I appreciate your help.
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By the way, I have another simple question hovering in my mind.
In English we could say the following:

I love you. Я тебя люблю
I like you.
How do I say ' I like you' in Russian?

In French it is Je t'aime.
II like you a lot. Je t'aime bien.

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Originally Posted by Markarios

My current thread is very long.
Therefore I thought it would better to create a new thread. If the moderator wants move this one to the old thread, it is fine by me.
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I have friend whose name is Jessica Pettersson.

Джессика Петерссон

Have I written it correctly?

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Yes.

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Originally Posted by Markarios

In English we could say the following:

I love you. Я тебя люблю
I like you.
How do I say ' I like you' in Russian?

In French it is Je t'aime.
II like you a lot. Je t'aime bien.

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The French "Je t'aime" would be "I love you" in English, not "I like you". There is the verb "plaire" in French (Russian "нравиться"). "I like you" would be "Tu me plais" in French (if I am not mistaken) and "Ты мне нравишься" in Russian (here, I am definitely not mistaken).

Оля
Thanks for the speedy reply.
You are not mistaken here.
The French verb 'plaire' is known to everybody who has a smattering of French.
Generally it means 'please'.
In French it is common to say 's'il vous plaît' when you want to say 'please'.
It is from the verb 'plaire'.
Je plais.
Tu plaît.

I didn't think of the French verb 'plaire' as the meaning of it borders to pleasing.
However, you are 100% correct.
It is fine to say the following:
Elle me plaît. I like her.
cet homme me plaît. I like this man.
Il plaît. People like him OR He is popular.

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I remember my former Russian teacher, Tatiana, used the word нравиться.
It means like as well as please.
I have forgotten a lot of Russian. Thanks to the forum I am revising my knowledge.

I am glad you know good French. Did you live in France?
I have been to France several times.
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Originally Posted by Markarios

I am glad you know good French.

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I don't. :)

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Originally Posted by Markarios

Did you live in France?

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I didn't :)

Что ты любишь?
What do you love?
(The above is correct.)

What do you like?
4.Что ты нравишься?
The answer for the above could be one of the following.

I like sports. [5. Я люблю спорт.]
I like girls. [6. Я нравишься девочек. ]
I like traveling. [ 7. Я нравишься ... ]

Could you please correct my Russian sentences?

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Originally Posted by Markarios

What do you like?
4.Что [s:bidwbz9n]ты нравишься[/s:bidwbz9n] тебе нравится? (You wrote "que tu plais", but it should be "que plaît a toi?")

I like sports. [5. Я люблю спорт.]
I like girls. [6. [s:bidwbz9n]Я нравишься девочек[/s:bidwbz9n]. ] Мне нравятся девушки (Filles me plaisent) or Я люблю девушек.
I like traveling. [ 7. [s:bidwbz9n]Я нравишься[/s:bidwbz9n] ... ] We usually say "I love" in such constructions: "Я люблю путешествовать". "Мне нравится (me plaît) путешествовать" is also possible

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In Russian the verb “to like” has a different government.
I (subject) like (predicate) girls (object) = Мне (object in dative!!!) нравятся (predicate) девушки (subject!!!)

What do you (subject) like? = Что тебе (object in dative) нравится (predicate). The Russian sentence has no a subject, because the interrogative word «что» try to find out it. By the way, the «что» is ask of nominative (кто?, что?), and if you see this word, answer is subject or object in accusative (кого?, что?).

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Originally Posted by Звездочёт

In Russian the verb “to like” has a different government.
I (subject) like (predicate) girls (object) = Мне (object in dative!!!) нравятся (predicate) девушки (subject!!!)

What do you (subject) like? = Что тебе (object in dative) нравится (predicate). The Russian sentence has no a subject, because the interrogative word «что» try to find out it.

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Same in French. Markarios says he knows French.

I have a friend whose name is Emin.
Today I told her I would write her name in Russian.

Емин

Please correct me. You might disagree with the way wrote the name.

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Originally Posted by Markarios

I have a friend whose name is Emin.
Today I told her I would write her name in Russian.

Емин

Please correct me. You might disagree with the way wrote the name.

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Эмин 8) Feel the difference.

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Originally Posted by Cocos

Feel the difference.

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Е'мин - Э'мин - Еми'н - Эми'н: Emin.mp3 (~ 66,2 Kb).

Thanks everybody for the replies.

You can never write correct Russian without your help. I just look at the Cyrillic alphabet write in Russian.
It is not easy.

Hm... It's strange for me. If you listen a pronunciation of a word, you can spell it, because in Russian one sound -- one letter. English alphabet is more difficult for me. For example, if you listen "k", how can you recognize a letter ("c" or "k")? However maybe Russian is easy for me, becouse I'm Russian?.. :D

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Originally Posted by Markarios

In French it is Je t'aime.
II like you a lot. Je t'aime bien.

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As Оля said: Je t'aime means I love you. Je t'aime bien or Tu me plais is I like you. I like you a lot would be Tu me plais beaucoup. Of course, different circumstances ask for different ways of saying something. But these are the typical translations.


Markarios, I think I understood from previous posts you have studied Russian in the past. Do you mind if I ask you when and for how long? Just out of curiosity.

Devochka has asked about my Russian studies.
It was about 4 years ago I studied Russian with Tatiana.
I studied Russian for the first time in 1997 or 1998. It was not with a native Russian teacher.
She was Swedish. I have heard she is retired now.
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I have started a new bank account at Ikano bank for obvious reasons.

Икано Банк
Did I write the words Ikano bank in correct Russian?

Chad and Gabriella are my friends. I told them I would write their names in Russian.
Please correct my Russian.
Chad [ Чад ]

Gabriella [ Габриэлла ]

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Икано Банк
Did I write the words Ikano bank in correct Russian?

Chad and Gabriella are my friends. I told them I would write their names in Russian.
Please correct my Russian.
Chad [ Чад ]

Gabriella [ Габриэлла ]

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It's correct

Thanks Dr Feelgood
It took more than 48 hours to get an answer. It seems all our friends who helps me are on holiday without any access to the Internet.

I am a foreigner in this country.

I am used to telling among my friends the following:
I am a bloody foreigner.

I just want to know how do you say this in Russian.

In French we say 'Je suis un sale étranger'.
Usually the French word 'sale' means dirty.


Я ...иностранец.

Я чёртов иностранец.

Thanks ОЛя
I have difficulty in pronouncing the sentence.

Я чёртов иностранец
Ya chermovi inostranesh.
Please help me to correct the pronunciation.

[ There is a glitch. The original word changes to ' чёртов'.I don't know why. I don't use Windows.
I just copied and pasted . All my computers are open source.]

Markarios, would you please learn the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian pronunciation rules? They're much easier than in English, believe me. So you will be able to read any Russian word by yourself. If you can't even learn the alphabet, I, to be honest, do not see any reason for you to know how to say in Russian "I love you / I'm a bloody foreigner / Where is a hotel please / bla bla bla". Either you learn a language, or not. If not, why do you need to know the pronunciation of that sentence? You don't.

Markarios, you have rather strange ways of learning Russian. How do you spell this name, that name, that bank’s name? Who cares how a foreigner spells or pronounces names? The weirder the cuter. Stop fooling around, cut to the chase, ask a question worth answering already!
Have you noticed what Zaya’s signature says? Think about it! :wink:
PS. You see, almost the same thoughts came to two persons simultaneously.

ОЛя wrote the following:
Markarios, would you please learn the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian pronunciation rules? They're much easier than in English, believe me.

You are completely wrong. Russian is very difficult to write and very difficult to pronounce. I bought about 20 Russian grammar books.
All the Russian grammar are in those books.
I bought them when I studied Russian.

I bought even the huge Oxford Russian dictionary.
I like Russian because it is a beautiful language like French.
I studied German and I understand German to a great extent. For me German is not a beautiful language. French and Russian are the best.

Nowadays I am not studying Russian. So writing, speaking, etc is not easy.
Therefore I badly need your help.

Makarios, looks like you don't hear anyone but yourself. Maybe your English is not that good, maybe you have problems with logics...

I am not "completely wrong" when I say that Russian pronunciation rules are much easier than in English. The fact is that in Russian, the pronunciation rules are RULES, and if you learn them once for all, you can apply them to EVERY Russian word. But in English, there are no "rules" which could help you, and you need to learn pronunciation for every single word. For example, the "-ood" in "mood" and the "-ood" in "blood" are pronounced in two different ways. And you can find a lot of such examples in English. That's not how it is in Russian. In Russian, you only need to learn the rules, and you can read any word correctly.

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Russian is very difficult to write and very difficult to pronounce

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If you think so, why do you struggle with Russian? If you want to learn it sooo much, to learn it anyway, you MUST learn the alphabet. And it would be better for you, not to give a hostile reception when someone gives you a good pieces of advice.
If you don't want to learn the alphabet, you will never know this language. Then again, in this case (if you're not studying Russian), I don't understand (and no one does) why you need to know how to read one word or another. Maybe you can explain?

Оля
When you are a native Russian speaker, it is your prerogative to say Russian is easy.
Most of the time I use the following URL to write and pronounce Russian.
http://www.roxana.spb.ru/alf.gif
However, it is a tall order for me.

There are no hostilities. I always heed to your advice. I accept your answers with grace.