Differences between Russian and English - helped needed
Hi there
I am new to this forum and I was wondering if some kind sould could help me out.
The other day I was given a homework assignment. This assignment was to find 12 differences between Russian and English.
So far, I have found 9 differences and a possible 10th.
This is what I have found so far
1) The alphabet
2) Russian is a phoentic language, unlike English.
3) Russian uses written stress indication
4) Different pronounciation of words
5) English only has one plural form wheras Russian has three or more
6) English words have no gender. Russian has masculine, feminine and neutral
7) If one noun follows another, the second noun will change it's ending sound. The form of the noun indicating it's role in a sentence, be it an object or subject
8) There are no articles such as "the" or "a" in Russian
9) The present tense of the verb "to be" is omitted in Russian
10) There are more vowels in Russian (this is the one I am unsure of)
I believe that there are at least two more differences between Russian and English.
Is there anyone out there that knows and can help?
Thanks!
Jools
Re: Differences between Russian and English - helped needed
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2) Russian is a phoentic language, unlike English.
Russian is not completely phonetic. Of course it is more phonetic than English, but that can be said of any language.
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3) Russian uses written stress indication
This is not quite correct. The only letter with a stress mark is ё. Otherwise, you have to guess where to put the stress.
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Originally Posted by jools230575
4) Different pronounciation of words
You may want to elaborate on this one.
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5) English only has one plural form wheras Russian has three or more
This is not quite correct. Maybe you are talking about cases. The Russian language has 6 cases.
The Russian language uses special characters ь and ъ to indicate palitization. English does not have such symbols.
Re: Differences between Russian and English - helped needed
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5) English only has one plural form wheras Russian has three or more
This is not quite correct. Maybe you are talking about cases. The Russian language has 6 cases.
Actually, not quite correct in being not quite correct. Russian does have three pluarls
1 = nom sing. 2-4 = gen sing. 5->20 + gen plural
and just regular plural - nom plural.