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    My son or your son?

    Вы сможете помочь сыну по физике7
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    1. Can you help your son with physics? or
    2. Can you help my son with physics?

    Would the use of "свой" или "твой" make it easier to understand?
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    Re: My son or your son?

    Quote Originally Posted by tohca
    Вы сможете помочь сыну по физике7
    Перевод:
    1. Can you help your son with physics? or
    2. Can you help my son with physics?

    Would the use of "свой" или "твой" make it easier to understand?
    Спасибо.
    Вы сможете помочь сыну по физике? - It is rather ambiguous! It can be cleared from context. When no context is given I should assume case 1.

    Can you help your son with physics? Вы сможете помочь своему (вашему) сыну по физике?
    Can you help my son with physics? Вы сможете помочь моему сыну по физике?

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    Re: My son or your son?

    Спасибо, Wowik. Сейчас ясно.

    I got the sentence from the Big Silver Book of 555 Verbs on the verb "мочь".
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