Thread: interested in, might be

What I know:
1. Menya interesuet opera.
2. Ya interesuius' operoi.

What I think I know:
1. Ya zainteresovan v opere.
2. On byl zainteresovan kupit' novyi dom.

What I tried to translate and I failed:
1. "Dear Aleksei, I think I found someone that might be interested in buying out / acquiring your company"
- My translation: Yvazhaemyi Aleksi, dumaiu, chto ya nashel kogo-to, kotoryi, mozhet byt' zainteresovan v ???

This language is killing me

Antonio, don't be so hard on yourself, you're on the right track there, actually you did very well.

Just a few notes:

Я заинтересован в опере - this sounds like you're interested in one particular opera play, whereas:
Меня интересует опера - sounds like you're just interested in opera as a form of art.

"Dear Aleksei, I think I found someone that might be interested in buying out / acquiring your company"
"Уважаемый Алексей, думаю, что нашел кое-кого, кто может быть заинтересован в покупке вашей компании"

That's the way to go, a few things to note though.

If you say уважаемый someone it's much better to refer to that someone with not only their first name, but also the patronymic/last name or the combination of all of those three. Anyway, usually it's first name + patronymic

Кое-кого - I used that one instead of кого-то because кое-кого implies that you know exactly who that someone is, whereas кого-то means that you only have a vague idea of who the someone is. Nevertheless you can replace any of those two with человек there - "... нашел человека, который..."

Take care.

Как-то всё неопределённо. "кое-кого", "может быть"...
А что если:

"Думаю, я нашёл потенциального покупателя вашей компании" .

Или, если обязательно хочется ввернуть "заинтересованного":

"Думаю, я нашёл человека, заинтересованного в покупке вашей компании"

Originally Posted by iCake

Antonio, don't be so hard on yourself, you're on the right track there, actually you did very well.

Just a few notes:

Я заинтересован в опере - this sounds like you're interested in one particular opera play, whereas:
Меня интересует опера - sounds like you're just interested in opera as a form of art.

"Dear Aleksei, I think I found someone that might be interested in buying out / acquiring your company"
"Уважаемый Алексей, думаю, что нашел кое-кого, кто может быть заинтересован в покупке вашей компании"

That's the way to go, a few things to note though.

If you say уважаемый someone it's much better to refer to that someone with not only their first name, but also the patronymic/last name or the combination of all of those three. Anyway, usually it's first name + patronymic

Кое-кого - I used that one instead of кого-то because кое-кого implies that you know exactly who that someone is, whereas кого-то means that you only have a vague idea of who the someone is. Nevertheless you can replace any of those two with человек there - "... нашел человека, который..."

Take care.

Regarding Yvazhaemyi perhaps Cyprus is the only country we do this.
Regarding koe-kogo I think I started understand the difference with kto-to.


P.S. By the way I have noticed that this is the first time since the time we enter the forum in Autumn of 2012 that I have more posts that you in the Forum (718 > 716).
I don't know if this is good or bad.

Actually, you are very good at Russian, Antonio. I started to learn Russian again after a long time and I like reading your threads because they are interesting and whenever a native speaker answers a question there is, of course, a lot of common words from everyday speech. Not only you will know correct anwers, but also you will learn common(est) phrases. To me, the more threads the better!

Originally Posted by George1992

Actually, you are very good at Russian, Antonio. I started to learn Russian again after a long time and I like reading your threads because they are interesting and whenever a native speaker answers a question there is, of course, a lot of common words from everyday speech. Not only you will know correct anwers, but also you will learn common(est) phrases. To me, the more threads the better!

Spasibo za xoroshie slova

A quick note:

It's better to say:

Спасибо за добрые слова.

But your sentence is still alright, just not that common

Часто ещё говорят: Ответы@Mail.Ru: Когда говорят: " СПАСИБО НА ДОБРОМ СЛОВЕ"?

Не старайся здесь понять падеж, так как это просто такое сложившееся выражение, устойчивое/устоявшееся словосочетание, застывшая конструкция. Носит разговорный характер.