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I was wondering, where can this particle be used, other than when it's been seperated from the rest of the word in double negative expressions.
Я не читаю ни о чём. - I'm not reading about anything.
Я не говорю ни с кем. - I'm not talking to anybody.
How does this particle work when it isn't used like this?
Your examples show only one function of ни as a particle. It is intensifying function.
Another function, for example, appears in consessive clauses: Куда ни посмотришь, везде поднимаются новые здания.
It can be uses In set expressions, which I think familar to you, as in: ни свет ни заря, ни дать ни взять, ни за что.
"На химфаке куда ни плюнь - девочка
На физфаке, что ни девочка, то плюнь".
Try to translate. ;)
Oki!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pioner
In the Chemistry department, no matter where you spit, there is a girl!!
In the Physics department, no matter where there is a girl, she is spit(table) (ie ugly)
Close?
You knew :lol:
yes, you knew! you knew! :lol:
8) :smug: :D
BTW, guys, it is better to say: You managed! or You did it!
You knew implies that I had heard it before and knew the joke... which I didn't :)
Actually that what I meant. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
I know you did not know, but I was kidding. Good translation! http://ourprivate.net/forum/images/smiles/524.gif