Concept of ANIMATE and INANIMATE in Russian

[@Macvriendin]

I once got this simple rule in my head: "No soul, no change, man!" Man is important to add because it refers to the masculine words only. It workes like a charm :-)

[@ninasayer886]

been watching you for 2 years im now pretty good at speaking Russian

[@АлександрЛукакенко]

Мда а я за 4 года никак не могу инглиш выучить ((

[@Baqsam]

Happy for you, although this nigga many addressess individual terms, which is not necessarily bad...

[@mustakarhu5449]

Dear Fedor, can you please make a video explaining the participle grammar? Nice vid btw

[@altaresdelbosque1107]

+1

[@BeFluentinRussian]

What's the Particle grammar? Can you link to some article, so I can make sure I cover the right topic

[@mustakarhu5449]

Well my comments with links get deleted so the first result from “participle russian grammar”

[@altaresdelbosque1107]

@@BeFluentinRussian Also trying to link smth but gets deleted. Greetings from Chile!

[@akunan4989]

@@BeFluentinRussian Things like Active Participle (present and past), Passive Participle (present and past) and Adverbial Participle (present and past). Example of a word: читать Читающий / Читавший (Active) Читаемый / Читанный (Passive) Читая / Читав & Читавши (Adverbial)

[@SpankyHam]

Terminator - animate thing терминаторЫ - plural infinitive, male gender of word Джон Коннор ненавидит терминаторОВ. John Connor hates terminators. - accusative plural ending

[@damianlopez7630]

Thank You Fedor.

[@DJDavid98]

If you are editing in Sony Vegas please look into how to disable motion blur, it's on by default in that program and it's really distracting to see some of it even on the animations

[@waadfrelle]

In Dutch we say: 'gooi maar in mijn pet' (just throw it into my hat') meaning: this one is going to take a looooong time before I will be able to use it :) Thanks, Fedor.

[@fufnulius1]

Zeggen wij dat? Gekke Hollandse uitspraak weer zeker

[@waadfrelle]

@@fufnulius1 ha, ken je ‘gooi maar in mijn pet’ niet? Handig voor alles wat je niet snapt hoor! :)

[@harrytoube1553]

This was very informative!

[@Cyclonus2377]

Как обычно, хорошое видео! Мне особенно нравится часть объясняющая как использовать "-его." Теперь это очень ясно. Спасибо большое! 👍

[@jolevangelista]

часто объясняющая? What did you mean?

[@Cyclonus2377]

@@jolevangelista "I especially liked the part explaining how to use '-его.'" Unless I'm mistaken, "explaining" would be a participle, necessitating the form "объясняющая."

[@jolevangelista]

@@Cyclonus2377 извините, я отчего-то прочитала часто вместо часть. Вы всё написали правильно. Partially, the reason was missed comma before объясняющая. Russian is one of those languages where punctuation is important.

[@Cyclonus2377]

@@jolevangelista Не беспокойся. 😊😊😊😊

[@ziplin5412]

Omg wow this was so helpful and clear

[@elprofegardner9061]

What happens to the Russian equivalents for the words "Who(m)", "someone/somebody", "no one/nobody", "anyone/anybody"? Do they receive this accusative case marking when they are direct objects?

[@livetwiceforyou]

Thank you for the video. I think children toys can sometimes be considered animate in Russian, right ?

[@SpankyHam]

You are right.

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Yes! I'd say if they're a toy of an animal, like a bear or a lion.

[@ethiop_frum]

Живые, неживые... И тут бы дать подписчикам прочитать на русском сказку "Федорино горе"!

[@ckpemac5268]

This is probably a stupid question, but I genuinely struggle to hear single-letter words such as 'в', 'к', etc. How can I hear them, as they are an important part of the language? Edit: the same goes for words like 'вдвое' and 'взрослый'.

[@jolevangelista]

Of course they are important. Especially because as prepositions they define cases in the entire phrase. It can sound banal but may I suggest you more practice?! :)

[@SueEshelman]

That is the simple explanation of animacy but... If I'm fishing for oyster or clams they are animate. If I'm sitting down to eat them they are inanimate. Octopi and lobster are animate whether I am about to eat them or not. Things that represent a living thing such as dolls or snowmen may be animate. And apparently Russia is in the midst of a zombie apocalypse because dead bodies are animate.

[@SalahNeuer]

Body parts like рука, глаза, нога are considered what

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Inanimate.

[@SalahNeuer]

@@BeFluentinRussian but i saw a sentence once that said “я не вижу ваших рук” here рука is put in accusative plural (so animate), so how?

[@MichaelSemikin]

@@SalahNeuer I think here the partitive genitive case is used to indicate that amount of hands is indefinite :) sort of "some" or plural indefinite article in some languages. For example "я жду автобус" - most likely particular (THE) bus. But "я жду автобуса" - i wait for A (some) bus.

[@Baqsam]

_This confused me for a long time! I thought it was just random!_

[@hend-wp1tt]

I am following you from Egypt. Please put subtitles in the video

[@iblackfeathers]

хорошего ютубера

[@Jaytecx]

Nice one bro, this is one of the most confusing things for me.

[@user-bp6dq9yw2f]

ANIMATE AND INANIMATE NOUNS IN PLURAL AND ACCUSATIVE CASE -Tables Столы Staly Won’t change in Accusative case. But, -Football players[Animate noun in plural, nominative case] Футболисты Futbalisty  Will become: Футболистов[Futbalistav] in accusative case. We replace {[a] -singular accusative ending} with {[ов=ov]-plural accusative ending} ★ As you can see, depending on whether a noun animate/inanimate they will have different way of changing or adjusting for accusative case. ANIMATE AND INANIMATE ADJECTIVES OF NOUNS IN ACCUSATIVE CASE But this animate Vs inanimate [noun] doesn’t only work with nouns, it also works with something that depends on nouns- that is Adjectives. -A good table Хороший стол Kharoshiy stol  Stays the same in accusative case. -Good football player[Animate noun in nom.case] Хороший футболист Khoroshiy futbolist  becomes: Good football player[ in accusative case] Хорошего футболиста kharosheva futbolista For example: I saw a good football player when I went to watch a football match. Я увидел хорошего футболиста, когда я пошёл смотреть футбольный матч. YA uvidel kharosheva futbalista, kagda YA pashol smatret' futbol'nyy match. ★ Therefore, this change applies only to masculine and plural animate nouns in Accusative case. For feminine, we don’t care whether it is animate/inanimate. For neuter , we also don’t care if it is animate/inanimate. It only works with [animate] masculine and plural nouns and their adjectives In accusative case.

[@user-c4b9b]

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[@pimvanvrijaldenhoven29]

What about: Я вижу коров (fem, plural)

[@jolevangelista]

That is correct. What is your question about this? Корова is animate (just like humans). With emotions and feelings and everything else per say.

[@pimvanvrijaldenhoven29]

@@jolevangelista Fedor stated that this only is true for masculine animate words (both plural and singular). In my example I wanted to show that it is also true for feminine animate plural only.

[@jolevangelista]

@@pimvanvrijaldenhoven29 may be. This is the time when native speakers know the language grammar not even remotely close to those who learn it in depth. Like you. Kudos!

[@mihanich]

I wanted to point that out too. Seems like he forgot about plural feminine.

[@konstantin5662]

Feminine nouns in accusative case always change their endings no matter living or not. Мама - маму , книга - книгу.

[@NitromantoHDTR]

When would you use тут and when would you use здесь?

[@АлександрЛукакенко]

Вы ещё не представляете, как мы English учим:)

[@NitromantoHDTR]

@@АлександрЛукакенко What do you mean?

[@sashagulkova6958]

I would say both these words are synonyms and there is almost no difference in meaning between them - they both mean “here”, “at this place”. However, здесь is more neutral, while тут is rather informal or “plain”, but still, the difference is very slight. For instance, you could say: «Мне здесь нравится.» - I like it here. Or, you could say: «Мне тут нравится.», which means absolutely the same thing.

[@Ana-jq9qy]

Здесь is neutral/official while тут is casual/old fashioned

[@levy3946]

Can anybody explain to me the phrase "русских женщин"? I can't figure this out. Why isn't it "русские женщины"? Like, "за что итальианцы так любят русских женщин" ???? Thanks in advance

[@SpankyHam]

accusative case plural for feminine gender form, nothing special nominative accusative итальянские актрисы я вижу итальянских актрис индийские тигрицы учёные исследуют индийских тигриц русские женщины итальянцы любят русских женщин французские певицы В Париже мы слушали французских певиц американские девушки За что вы любите американских девушек?

[@levy3946]

@@SpankyHam ahh!! That was it! Thank you mister!!!

[@polly_ishan]

:D