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Hey everyone, I have two really quick questions.

1) I saw Brat (first part), and they seem to add -to to every other word. What's the significance of that? Is that like an alternative for "the" (though unlikely to be so)?

2) The stupider one: What is the pronoun for a plural neutrer (or masc/fem inanimatve) accusative? Is it 'ix' or 'oni'? Becuase as far as I'm concerned, 'ix' (also being the possessive, genitive and accusative plural of "oni) is for animate objects.

v moix knigax est neskol'ko russkix rasskazov, no ya (ix ili oni?) vsyo eschyo ne prochital (ili chital?).

Thanks!

Perhaps the Russian learners can help you more with -то particle than native speakers can do; for me, it drives some extra emphasis to the word.

Ты всё понял-то? You did understand everything?
Ты-то всё понял? Did you understand everything?
Мне-то всё понятно. As for me, I understand everything.
Что понятно-то? What exactly to understand?

One particle per sentence is okay, more (-то)s will be considered low-educated speech

plural accusative = их, your sentence is correct

прочитал, читал are both possible in your example, they will mean different things:
ещё не читал - didn't start to read them yet
ещё не прочитал - haven't read them yet

Hm. I remember that from that movie too. They used a lot of things i'd never heard before. Like when he meets the german guy he says "Как тебя звать". I remember that kinda threw me off. But if you say "как тебя звать\ как тебя звать-то" I think i was told its a way to refer to the person as uhm. Not really inferior to you, but diminutive.

For example, your on a secret mafia mission to bag a baddie whos hiding in the attic of an orhpanage and stealing candy from the kids. You would go up to a kid and say "эй привет, как тебя звать-то?" when you needed some info from him. Its like "Hey buddy, what's your name?"

Im not really good at explaining things either :(

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Originally Posted by Indra

it drives some extra emphasis to the word.

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After loud strong emphasis a speaker wants to relax and make a some sort of pause so he saуs a quiet -то.

Ты-то понимаешь? (Именно ты, а не они)
Ты понимаешь-то? (Именно понимаешь, а не пропускаешь мимо ушей)