Thread: Breakfast translation continues

Great, thanks both, plenty to learn from there.

No idea why I though 'положил немного воды в кастрюлю' was right, it looks silly to me now, as if water is a thing I can pick up and move around on its own.

'High-precision cooking!'
Yes, less waste. Don't like leaving food uneaten. I know how much is enough!

Never heard 'шестёрка' before; is that used a lot in speech?

'перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу'
I had to make room for the bowl to eat the porridge out of. Crowded worktops, need to tidy up...

'банан недозрелый, но пойдёт.' Is 'это хватает' wrong, or is 'пойдёт' just better, more natural? I haven't heard it used like this before.

'контейнер' maybe sounds best for the things that we buy frozen fruit in, I just remembered we call them 'punnets' (https://www.planetorganic.com/bluebe...25g-125g/1812/ the price of these are shocking, btw)

'One can say also 'I open the bottle', right?' Yes, my version was just bad English turned into bad Russian.

'упаковка' sounds like a useful word for when shopping, not everything comes in a 'пакет' afterall, and 'ёмкость' seems to be the sort of thing you buy and keep, not throw away when it's empty.

'пачка' in google image search turns up lots of ballet dancers in tutus. What a versatile word!

Originally Posted by grafrich

'перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу'
I had to make room for the bowl to eat the porridge out of. Crowded worktops, need to tidy up...[I]

Maybe,
Я отодвинул кастрюлю в другое место стола.
or
Я переставил кастрюлю на столе.

перемещать and столешница are correct words, but not colloquial ones. Перемещать is too general while столешница is too detailed.

Originally Posted by grafrich

'банан недозрелый, но пойдёт.' Is 'это хватает' wrong, or is 'пойдёт' just better, more natural? I haven't heard it used like this before.

Хватает / хватит usually assumes quantity.
Бананов немного, но этого хватит. ‘There’s not so many bananas, but that will suffice’

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Never heard 'шестёрка' before; is that used a lot in speech?
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1 едини́ца
2 дво́йка
3 тро́йка
4 четвёрка
5 пятёрка
6 шестёрка
7 семёрка
8 восьмёрка
9 девя́тка
10 деся́тка

These words have several meanings.

They can be used to denote a group of n objects. E.g. Большая Семёрка ‘G7 summit’; тройка ‘troika, three-horse team’. This meaning is rather bookish.

Another meaning, used a lot in both literary and colloquial speech, is ‘a figure written out’.
E.g.
большая синяя единица — a big blue ‘1’.
Число зверя — три шестёрки — The Number of the Beast is three 6’s.

In particular, these words are used for school marks. (We have a five-mark grading system in Russia, пятёрка being the best and единица (also known as кол for its shape) the worst mark).

Playing cards (2, …, 10) are called двойка, …, десятка.
E.g. шестёрка червей ‘6 of hearts’.

Things which model names contain number 1—10 are also often called informally using these words:
OS Windows 7 — «семёрка», Windows 8 — «восьмёрка», Windows 10 — «десятка».
Car model ВАЗ-2106 — «шестёрка», ВАЗ-2107 — «семёрка», ВАЗ-2109 — «девятка» etc.