Thread: Свинья на счастье

Originally Posted by krwright

I can understand how the translation maxmixiv provided sounds better, but I am curious as to how my translation is either incorrect and/or unusual.
Thank you

wrong (adv) = "не так", "неправильно" (you just missed)
Verb "есть" in Present Tense in Russian usually skipped. У нее три ноги.
Try to avoid usage of verb "иметь". "люди, которые их имеют" = "их владельцы"
"city of Moscow" = "город Москва" no preposition
"three-legged" = "трехногие"
принести людям - no preposition к
давать свиней - Instrumental required
charm (here) - талисман (брелок is just a pendant with no magic)
давали свиней как талисманы - Accusative
longer (about time period) - дольше
good luck, good fortune = "удача"
bad luck, bad fortune = "неудача"

Originally Posted by it-ogo

wrong (adv) = "не так", "неправильно" (you just missed)
Verb "есть" in Present Tense in Russian usually skipped. У нее три ноги.
Try to avoid usage of verb "иметь". "люди, которые их имеют" = "их владельцы"
"city of Moscow" = "город Москва" no preposition
"three-legged" = "трехногие"
принести людям - no preposition к
давать свиней - Instrumental required
charm (here) - талисман (брелок is just a pendant with no magic)
давали свиней как талисманы - Accusative
longer (about time period) - дольше
good luck, good fortune = "удача"
bad luck, bad fortune = "неудача"

A couple of questions:

"city of Moscow" = "город Москва" no preposition
Did you mean Pomaire? I didn't mention Moscow.

"давать свиней - Instrumental required"
Why instrumental? Looking at this now, I thought it would be animate - accusative plural (matching genitive)?

Thank you very much!

Originally Posted by krwright

Did you mean Pomaire? I didn't mention Moscow.

Yes, but I gave Moscow as an example of rule, because foreign names can make some theoretical complications.

"давать свиней - Instrumental required"
Why instrumental? Looking at this now, I thought it would be animate - accusative plural (matching genitive)?

Yes, it is Accusative, sorry.

Originally Posted by Fester

Not even Genetive there? "Город Москвы" ?

Here "Москва" should be either in the same case as "город" (like if you write it with hyphen: город-Москва, города-Москвы, городу-Москве) or in Nominative (like if you write the actual name in quotes: город "Москва", города "Москва", городу "Москва").

Originally Posted by it-ogo

wrong (adv) = "не так", "неправильно" (you just missed)
Verb "есть" in Present Tense in Russian usually skipped. У нее три ноги.
Try to avoid usage of verb "иметь". "люди, которые их имеют" = "их владельцы"
"city of Moscow" = "город Москва" no preposition
"three-legged" = "трехногие"
принести людям - no preposition к
давать свиней - Instrumental required
charm (here) - талисман (брелок is just a pendant with no magic)
давали свиней как талисманы - Accusative
longer (about time period) - дольше
good luck, good fortune = "удача"
bad luck, bad fortune = "неудача"

Not even Genetive there? "Город Москвы" ?

Originally Posted by Fester

Not even Genetive there? "Город Москвы" ?

No. "Город Москвы" means "a town is property of Moscow" or "appurtenant to Moscow".
Sometimes you don't need to translate "of". And sometimes of = из.