Word order

Jun. 6th, 2008 07:44 am
[identity profile] bellezzarubata.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] learn_russian
Typically, I can squeak by with what I feel sounds correct but I was writing an email and couldn't decide whether  "Cкоро yвидимься" or  "Увидимься cкоро" was correct. 

Which is correct? Or does it matter.  If it does, can anyone explain why?

Thanks!

Date: 2008-06-06 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] konstkaras.livejournal.com
Don't let it confuse you. Ь doesn't mean any pause, it means softness of previous consonant. Some people still speak in older way when a consonant brings shares its softness with immediately previous one; some people don't, but this "extra softness" is never written.
And this is no grammatical reason to write ь: this is увидим - a werb увидеть in future tense, 2nd person - with reflexive(reciprocal) particle -ся

Date: 2008-06-06 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] konstkaras.livejournal.com
ь does NOT make any sound! It just a)make previous consonant soft; and b) make a following vowel, if it's я, е, ё, ю or и be read with [й] sound before (that is, as in start of a word, except for и).

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