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[dudeapathy.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!

In order to express "during this summer", would it be proper to say в этом летом, or is just этом летом sufficient for such an expression? I seem to recall that летом can be used for something along the lines of "in summer", but I'm trying to specify that something happened this summer.

Спасибо! :)

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[bad-zeppelin.livejournal.com]

этим летом

[dudeapathy.livejournal.com]

этим! Of course! I was trying to make it rhyme, it seems. :)

[cedrebleu.livejournal.com]

in summer - летом
during this summer - ЭТИМ ЛЕТОМ

[dudeapathy.livejournal.com]

Большое Спасибо!

[stoshagownozad.livejournal.com]

if you need a rhyme, try "в это лето", it is less used in the regular speech but also possible

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

+1

[drabkina.livejournal.com]

No, he is joking - "этОм летОм" rhymes :), he doesn't really need a rhyme.

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

ЭтИМ летом. You were correct with летом, but the word этом with that word isn't agreeing in case. Just remember that the instrumental is used for this sort of scenario.

[dudeapathy.livejournal.com]

My problem is that I saw летом and for some reason though it was prepositional. I thought of "in summer" as being prepositional (because of the "in"), so went for the prepositional instead of instrumental. Now I know better! :)

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that feeling. Latin has shaped my concept of case-usage and gave me experience enough to show that the way they use cases parallel to an extent with some modern language.

An example could be that latin uses "in" + Acc. for "into", as does Russian. But in Russian, it can translate as "to" (I think) as well. Another example is what we just spoke of. "In the summer" uses a subdivision of the Ablative case (which would be in Latin) called the instrumental that shows place and time. Latin does the same. It's pretty wicked. :-)