Thread: Please check the translation of this little story.

Originally Posted by Martin Miles

В одиннадцатом году лет,

В (the prepositional case) одиннадцатом году it means "in 1911 or 1811 etc". "When Svetlana was eleven her older sister went away... = "Когда Светлане было одиннадцать ее сетра..." If the English sentence had been "When Svetlana was eleven she did smth" then you could translate "в (the acusative case) одинадцать лет она что-то сделала"

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