translation of "women"

delavega

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« on: August 10, 2007, 01:46:48 AM »

I'm not sure about the translation of the word "women".

I found in google translate this:

женщин

But also these two are translated like "women":

женщины
женщина

What are the differences? I noticed the end is different.

Thank you!


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charlestonian

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2007, 09:27:54 PM »

Quote from: delavega on August 10, 2007, 01:46:48 AM

Some context would help. It could be any one of the two (both plural): "женщины" or "женщин."
Examples:
They are women = они - женщины.

There are many women out there = там много женщин.

женщина is singular for a woman.
Example: One woman = одна женщина.


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delavega

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 12:25:11 AM »

Hello, thank you a lot for your response

I don't get it very clear when each plural is used Huh


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charlestonian

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2007, 12:54:57 AM »

Quote from: delavega on August 11, 2007, 12:25:11 AM

Hello, thank you a lot for your response

I don't get it very clear when each plural is used Huh

It depends on the Russian grammatical case. I think these will help you:

http://www.keezell.jmu.edu/rus101/

http://www.keezell.jmu.edu/rus232/

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case


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delavega

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2007, 04:16:08 AM »

Thank you a lot for you help (and patience).

After reading those articles and pages, I still don't get when to use one or the other Sad

Maybe it's something that languages like English or Spanish don't have, do they?

Thank you!


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Ken

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2007, 10:11:57 AM »

Yes. Such things don't exist in modern English or Spanish.

In Russian, the endings depend on the position of the word in the sentence.

If "woman" is accusative, for example, "A man sees a woman" it would be "zhenshchinu" if it's "with a woman" then it's "zhenshchinoy" and so on..

This way, you can change the word-order "A woman sees a man" and the meaning would still be that the man sees the woman, because of the declination at the end of the word "woman."


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delavega

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Re: translation of "women"

« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2007, 04:39:05 PM »

Thank you both


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