Thread: Please check the translation of this little story.

Originally Posted by kib

Die = умереть, уйти из (the genitive case) этого мира, покинуть (the acusative case) этот мир (the last two are inflated and bookish); I think there are more synonyms, but I can't remember them.

Well, there's always "Когда Светлане было 22 года, мама дохла."

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Well, there's always "Когда Светлане было 22 года, мама дохла."

Yeah, that's true I guess there are as many synonyms in Russian as in English.
What you said is incorrect. I think any Russian has never said this word though it makes sens. It means "was dying", but we use "подыхала" in this case. You should say "подохла" или "сдохла" and better you should'n at all - much too rude

Originally Posted by kib

Yeah, that's true I guess there are as many synonyms in Russian as in English.
What you said is incorrect. I think any Russian has never said this word though it makes sens. It means "was dying", but we use "подыхала" in this case. You should say "подохла" или "сдохла" and better you should'n at all - much too rude

[Facepalm] This is why one should be careful about learning grammar from jokes! I'm pretty sure (если память меня не обманывает!) that дохла is a form I heard/read в очень пошлом и не приятном анекдоте, где Дед Мороз объясняает детям про Снегурочку: "Ей не больно, ведь она уж дохла!"

Thus, I assumed that дох/дохла were the normal perfective forms.

But perhaps the ungrammatical дохла was part of the humor, чтобы подчеркнуть невероятную пошлость (англ.: "tackiness") в том, что сказал Дед Мороз? Or maybe I'm remembering the joke incorrectly, and he actually said сдохла...

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

[Facepalm] This is why one should be careful about learning grammar from jokes! I'm pretty sure (если память меня не обманывает!) that дохла is a form I heard/read в очень пошлом и не приятном анекдоте, где Дед Мороз объясняает детям про Снегурочку: "Ей не больно, ведь она уж дохла!"

Thus, I assumed that дох/дохла were the normal perfective forms.

But perhaps the ungrammatical дохла was part of the humor, чтобы подчеркнуть невероятную пошлость (англ.: "tackiness") в том, что сказал Дед Мороз? Or maybe I'm remembering the joke incorrectly, and he actually said сдохла...

I think I got. There's an adjective "дохлый" (dead) in Russian, and maybe it was the word that was in the joke: "Ей не больно, ведь она уж дохлая" If you heard the joke you could have misheard since the pronunciation of this word is very similar to "дохла". But if you saw the the joke written, I don't know what yo say. You may ask another (or a few) native Russian to verify my opinion.

But perhaps the ungrammatical дохла was part of the humor, чтобы подчеркнуть невероятную пошлость

I don't see anything like that.