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[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

We're doing reflexive verbs in my class, and I think I'm missing something.

We were supposed to translate from English to Russian, and she marked the following as wrong:

What time does the hotel open?
Что время делает ресторан в открывается?

What time does the museum open?
Что время музей открывается?

I'm not sure what I did wrong there, because I got the other 10 sentences correct. Should I have put какое instead of что?

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

Well she was right because this is wrong.
First, I don't see how did you get "ресторан" from "hotel".

открывается is correct in both cases but "what time" is not "что время", it is "когда". "что время" is a nonsense. Alternatively you can ask "в какое время" or "во сколько".

[belacane.livejournal.com]

your reflexive seems fine.... it's your translation of 'what time' that is incorrect.

it should be

во сколько. or когда.

[belacane.livejournal.com]

... I'm also suprised that your teacher doesn't give you the correct variant of things she's marked wrong.

It would be so much more helpful if s/he did.

In addition to what the other two said

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

What's with the "делает" and the "в" in the first sentence?

I'm guessing that maybe you translated "does" too literally. In English, this is a meaningless "do" and is not the same as the verb "to do". Russian doesn't need a dummy verb in questions/negatives like English, so never translate the dummy "do".

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

Well, she'll cross out a word here or there, but for the most part, leaves up a little bit of guesswork.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

So in both cases:
когда гостиница (I don't know where I got ресторан, either) в открывается?
когда музей открывается?

[belacane.livejournal.com]

there is no 'в' needed at all.

[ex-elenoush.livejournal.com]

"What" doesn't only mean "что" but also "какой". "What time" = когда, в какое время. "Does" is an auxilary verb and meaningless here.
What time=когда
does=
the notel= гостиница
open= открывается?

Re: In addition to what the other two said

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

"Do" is a 'dummy' verb, not a modal. Modals are: must, can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would.
Don't confuste them with the auxiliaries be and have, either.