Thread: transliterated: "poluchayetsa"

my guess is that it is some form of the word (transliterated) "polucheet" or is it poluchat?? well, whatever the word is that means "to receive." I keep hearing it used in conversational speech but can't find the dictionary entry.

sorry about the transliteration, i dont know how to turn on cyrillic fonts on Mac OSX

This is the reflexive form of the word.
получаться

why is the "ся" ending added to the singular form of "получать?"

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Originally Posted by 2CREATV

why is the "ся" ending added to the singular form of "получать?"

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That's how refexive verbs are formed:"ся" is added to the infinitive form of the verb.
This verb is translated depending on the context and is usually connected with the result of some action:
У меня не получается открыть дверь. - I can't open the door. (I try to open the door but there's no result)
Я рисую дом. Смотри как у меня получается. - I'm drawing a house. Look how it comes out.
Я не виноват, просто так получилось. - It's not my fault, it just turned out like this. (past tense here)

Originally Posted by 2CREATV

why is the "ся" ending added to the singular form of "получать?"

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получать и получаться are different words. They have different meanings.

получать -to receive, to obtain
получаться - to come out right, to turn out
не получаться - to go wrong

болшои спасибо фсе! (я сичас на компутзр с виндос система)

Just to correct your spelling.

большое спасибо все! (я сейчас на компьютер .... not sure about this)

thanks, i wasn't sure about "computer" , and i was way off on "bolshoi"...i guess you can only go so far stretching phonetics

heh no prob. You'll pick understand spelling a lot more once you start learning grammar.

for example "большой стол" "большое спасибо" - adjectives change their endings depending on the case of the noun.

you'll catch on.

One more little correction:

Большое спасибо за всё - thanks for everything

Большое спасибо всем - thanks everyone