Thread: ого and eго

Originally Posted by antwerpsupporter

Hi,

i have a question.

I am studying the princeton course, which in my opinion is pretty good to study russian. There it says that you pronounce the г as a v sound. So during 60 chapters i was doing this. But sometimes i heard on the recordings still a g sound. I never understood why this was.

Now a friend of mine, from Ukraine, says that the v sounds is only spoking in small villages and not in the big cities, that in the big cities its the g sound.
Can anyone help me with this? Is there a rule?

Thx

Yes, there is a rule about the Russian pronouns, ordinal numerals and adjectives in the Genitive Case ( and sometimes in Accusative, if they refer to living things), stating that the inflexions "-его", "-ово" are pronounced as /-ива/, /-ава/. Lots of examples have already been provided, however, let me offer some more examples:

Я никого /никаво/ не вижу. - Here is the pronoun "никто" in the Genitive.

Я вижу красивого /красивава/ мужчину. - Here is the adjective "красивый" in the Accusative Case, describing a man.

Я люблю своего /свайиво/ мужа. - Here is the pronoun "свой" in the Accusative, describing a man.

Где Петров? Вы видели его /йиво/? - Here is the pronoun "он" In the Accusative, naming a male.

And some more examples, this time with adjectives in Genitive and Accusative:

У самого /самава/ синего /синива/ моря.

Я не люблю сладкого /слаткава/.

Дайте мне зеленого /зиленава/ чаю.

The word "сегодня" is pronounced /сиводня/, because it is a compound, coming from "сего" and "дня" (of this day).

Originally Posted by Yulia65

The word "сегодня" is pronounced /сиводня/, because it is a compound, coming from "сего" and "дня" (of this day).

To be more specific, /сиводни/, because letter "и", when unstressed (unaccentuated), is reduced to a sound resembling /и/.

Originally Posted by Yulia65

To be more specific, /сиводни/, because letter "и", when unstressed (unaccentuated), is reduced to a sound resembling /и/.

Sorry, "я" is reduced to /и/ when unstressed.