Thread: Correct please (dinlot)

Jody Mitic's life changed forever in 2007.

Жизнъ Годя Митика изменило навсегла в 2007.

Life - nominative
Jody Mitic - genitive

и genitive ending changed to я
consonant - add a

changed - perfective verb
forever - adverb (no changes in ending)



Please correct, my Russian friends.

Жизнь Джоди Митика изменилась навсегда в 2007.

1) Жизнь
In modern Russian the hard sign ("ъ") isn't used at end of words. It's used only between prefixes and roots, wich begin with the letters "я", "е", "ё", "ю".

2) Джоди
Why Годи?!

3) Джоди
This name is borrowed and has atypical construction ("и" at the end of name), so it's used only in nominative.

4) Изменилась
Passive voice (страдательный залог). "Изменила" means "It [Jody Mitic's life] have made changes".
By the way, if sentence have no passive voice the word "изменила" is right, not "изменило", because "жизнь" is female.

5) Навсегда
I think it's typo: the key "д" is near "л" on a keyboard.

Thank you.

> By the way, if sentence have no passive voice the word "изменила" is right, not "изменило", because "жизнь" is female.

"Изменило" can be used here. Example: "Его выкинуло из машины и несколько раз перевернуло (силой инерции).". Words in brackets can be omitted, which lead us to structure and cases of phrase from question.
However "жизнь изменилась" is used much more often. Conventional phrase. "Жизнь изменило" sounds unusual, despite of it's correctness, so, it took several seconds to understand why this case is used, even for me.