Gerunds and prepositions

[krasnojarsk.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I'm currently writing my thesis about Swedish translation of Russian gerunds, and to clearly show the difference between благодаря as a preposition taking the dative and the gerund of благодарить taking the accusative, I would like to form a sentence for both, i.e. "Благодаря ему, она получила свою зарплату.". Thought I would need some help with the other one, I understand it's not very common to see благодаря  used as a normal gerund, but if anyone could think of a good, short sentence with a gerund and a main verb, I would be thankful. :) So, for example, "Благодаря его, он bla bla bla bla."

Thank you in advance!

Comments

[ashalynd.livejournal.com]

Кланяясь и благодаря, он пятился к двери.

[ksana.livejournal.com]

it could be something like:
благодаря его за помощь, он крепко пожал ему руку.

[krasnojarsk.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I would need a clear example of a direct object that's controlled by the gerund though, to clearly show the difference between the preposition and gerund. Would "Благодаря его, она вошла в комнату." work for example? I take it благодаря is a perfective gerund, despite its ending?

[krasnojarsk.livejournal.com]

Спасибо большое! :)

[ashalynd.livejournal.com]

The phrase is OK, but благодаря is imperfective. Perfective would be поблагодарив.

[ashalynd.livejournal.com]

OR поблагодаря, of course.

[krasnojarsk.livejournal.com]

Ah of course, I was confused there for a bit. I've cleared it out now, thank you very much!

[ksana.livejournal.com]

поблагодаря is incorrect -)
the only possible way to make the verb a perfective gerund is - поблагодарив as u have said before.