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    Word of the day

    Today's word of the day is 'ворота', and the example is: 'Хозяин закрыл ворота.'

    It's probably just me being stupid, but I thought that it would be: 'Хозяин закрыл воротy', because 'ворота' is the direct object and so would be in the accusative case.

    Can someone tell me why it isn't please?

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    Re: Word of the day

    Quote Originally Posted by начало
    Today's word of the day is 'ворота', and the example is: 'Хозяин закрыл ворота.'

    It's probably just me being stupid, but I thought that it would be: 'Хозяин закрыл воротy', because 'ворота' is the direct object and so would be in the accusative case.

    Can someone tell me why it isn't please?
    cause ворота is plural

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    ahh....I knew it would be something like that lol. Thanks. What is the singular then? Cos my dictionary only has 'ворота'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by начало
    ahh....I knew it would be something like that lol. Thanks. What is the singular then? Cos my dictionary only has 'ворота'.
    It doesn't have singular form, like scissors etc.

    Ворота usually implies two door gate.
    One door of ворота is створка [ворот]

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    Пришла беда - отворяй ворота

    It's a saying about misfortunes coming one after another. The stress here is on the last syllable of "ворота" (it's an archaic version) for rhyme.
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    Thanks Alware, that does make sense. So 'ворота' is a double gate (one with 2 doors), and 'створка' is a single gate (one door) yeah?

    And thanks Vadim84 thats really useful, I want to learn more proverbs and sayings like that. 'Пришла беда - отворяй ворота' is the same as 'when it rains it poors' in English

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    дать от ворот поворот — to give smb. a gate, to brush smb. off

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    ooo more, thanks gRomoZeka!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by начало
    ooo more, thanks gRomoZeka!!
    смотреть как баран на новые ворота - to stare like a stuck pig

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    I am definitly going to learn that one!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by начало
    Thanks Alware, that does make sense. So 'ворота' is a double gate (one with 2 doors),
    Take note of the word "usually" in Alware's message, because these, for example, are ворота too:
    http://www.rusdol.ru/img_add/000003_B.jpg
    http://www.vorota2000.ru/doors/angar/image/big/180.jpg

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    Oh, ok, thanks. Is there anyway to tell when to use 'ворота' and when to use 'створка' or 'ворот'?

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    Just in case - 'ворота' is always plural, regardless of how many leaves it consists of.

    I don't think 'створка' will be of much use to you. For example, if one of the gate leaves is open and you want someone to close it, you would rather say "Закрой ворота" than "Закрой створку ворот".

    Well, you need 'створка' if you want only one of the leaves to be opened or closed:
    "Закрой левую створку ворот." (правую оставь открытой)
    "Открой правую створку." (левую оставь закрытой)

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    These are also ворота:
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... _gates.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by начало
    'Пришла беда - отворяй ворота' is the same as 'when it rains it poors' in English
    Да, у обеих пословиц одно и тоже значение. Есть ещё одна синонимичная: Беда не приходит одна.
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    Thanks everyone.

    This shows both the best and worst parts of learning a language. I hate it because something that seems so simple ends up being way more complicated than you think; But I love learning language because it's just so much fun to see how it all comes together.

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