Thread: домашнее животное -- genitive plural

Hello!

I have three questions.

1. What is домашнее животное in the genitive plural?

2. "I went to the village to visit Sergey and his dog." What construction do you use to express the "to visit" part? Я приехал в деревню, ... ?

3. Also, how would you express "we stopped by his place on the way home" ?


Thanks!

1. What is домашнее животное in the genitive plural?
Домашних животных

2. "I went to the village to visit Sergey and his dog." What construction do you use to express the "to visit" part? Я приехал в деревню, ... ?

Я приехал/поехал/ездил в деревню навестить Сергея и его собаку (Сергея с собакой).

3. Also, how would you express "we stopped by his place on the way home" ?

Normally I would say Мы зашли к нему домой, but since the end of the sentence would be по дороге домой, I dropped the first домой. In some cases it might lead to ambiguity...

Мы зашли к нему по дороге домой.
Or
По дороге домой мы зашли к нему.

Hi! My question may seem stupid but I`m new at this so here it goes... How can I write these messages in cyrillic characters?
Tnx!

Можно сказать “Мы зашли к нему на пути домой”?

Originally Posted by basurero

Можно сказать “Мы зашли к нему на пути домой”?

нет, можно сказать "по пути"

You should say: по пути домой
on the way home = по ...

Originally Posted by groovychick

Hi! My question may seem stupid but I`m new at this so here it goes... How can I write these messages in cyrillic characters?
Tnx!

The most straightforward way is to install/enable Russian support on your PC. If you are running Windows 2000 or XP it is very simple to do... Then you will need to get stickers with Cyrillic letters for your keyboard or simply label them with a pencil/marker. If you go this way (I mean the pencil), use the front vertical surface of the keys...

Or if you're too lazy to learn a new layout (like me), download a Russian phonetic keyboard such as this one

You can print out a picture of the Russian layout from a website.