Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: мне can be used as мой? Slang?

  1. #1
    Подающий надежды оратор
    Join Date
    Apr 2011
    Posts
    28
    Rep Power
    9

    мне can be used as мой? Slang?

    I was reading lyrics to two songs Номерок блатной and покажи мне любовь and I saw in the lyrics that they were using "мне" in sentences that wouldn't make sense with it there.

    Like in Nomerok Blatnoy:
    "Папа задарил мне новый Ланд-Ровер."

    And, Pokazhi, of course is покажи мне любовь. I guess this means "Bye My Love" or "Go away"

    Well I'm just curious. By the way, what exactly does покажи mean? Haven't been able to find English translation anywhere.

  2. #2
    Властелин
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Posts
    1,339
    Rep Power
    13
    покажи мне любовь
    Show me love.
    Папа задарил мне новый Ланд-Ровер."
    (My) dad presented me a new land-rover.
    What don't you like?

  3. #3
    Властелин
    Join Date
    Jul 2010
    Location
    Russia
    Posts
    1,037
    Rep Power
    24
    задарил - this is teenager slang, better to avoid it, to my mind sounds really stupid. Correct is подарил.

  4. #4
    Властелин
    Join Date
    Jul 2010
    Location
    Russia
    Posts
    1,037
    Rep Power
    24
    Покажи is from показать = to show

  5. #5
    zxc
    zxc is offline
    Почтенный гражданин
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Posts
    151
    Rep Power
    11
    Quote Originally Posted by yswaq View Post
    I was reading lyrics to two songs Номерок блатной and покажи мне любовь and I saw in the lyrics that they were using "мне" in sentences that wouldn't make sense with it there.

    Like in Nomerok Blatnoy:
    "Папа задарил мне новый Ланд-Ровер."

    And, Pokazhi, of course is покажи мне любовь. I guess this means "Bye My Love" or "Go away"

    Well I'm just curious. By the way, what exactly does покажи mean? Haven't been able to find English translation anywhere.
    As someone mentioned, покажи is the informal imperative of the verb 'to show' показать - Wiktionary.

    Мне in both of these contexts acts as an indirect object (IO). The new Land Rover and love are the direct objects (DO).
    Subj. Verb IO DO
    Папа задарил мне новый Ланд-Ровер.

    (Verb) IO DO
    покажи мне любовь
    (The subject is the unsaid 'you'.)

    The indirect object answers the question of 'To whom?' or 'For whom?' You could translate it as such:

    Папа задарил мне новый Ланд-Ровер. Dad gave a new Land Rover to me.
    покажи мне любовь. Show love to me.

    This expresses the same idea, and shows that the function of it in these sentences answers the question of 'To whom?'

    Note, however, that if you do throw 'to' in your English translation, it ceases to be the indirect object and instead acts as an object of a preposition (the preposition 'to'). The meaning would be the same, but the grammatical role would be different (in English, Russian makes no distinction with this particular structure).

    You can review how мне and the dative case in general are used at this link: http://masterrussian.com/aa070100a.shtml

  6. #6
    Подающий надежды оратор
    Join Date
    Jul 2011
    Posts
    35
    Rep Power
    9
    in this context задарил is peasant speak, avoid it like the plague. however there is a context where задарил is perfectly acceptable: он задарил ее подарками - "he SHOWERED her with presents". however this is not how it's used in the lyrics.

Similar Threads

  1. Some Russian Slang
    By Wyrm in forum Grammar and Vocabulary
    Replies: 15
    Last Post: February 28th, 2010, 09:19 PM
  2. Internet slang
    By Trzeci_Wymiar in forum Translate This!
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: August 25th, 2008, 01:42 PM
  3. Looking for a slang word
    By Gerty in forum Learn English - Грамматика, переводы, словарный запас
    Replies: 42
    Last Post: September 14th, 2006, 02:54 AM
  4. Slang.
    By subpar in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 20
    Last Post: June 8th, 2006, 05:15 PM
  5. Computer slang
    By Tu-160 in forum Fun Stuff
    Replies: 35
    Last Post: March 20th, 2004, 08:00 AM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  


Russian Lessons                           

Russian Tests and Quizzes            

Russian Vocabulary