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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

When you're counting people, years, and children, would it be the following?

Один - человек, год, ребёнок
Два - люди, года, дети
Пять - людей, лет, детей

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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I was listening to something the other day and had a random question: If you can negate being well (for example)by saying "ya ne horosho", is it possible to also negate it by saying "ya horosho nyet"? And if so, is it possible to negate any verb by stating the verb followed by nyet instead of ne + verb? (Similar to colloquial French where you can negate a verb by saying verb + pas)

ETA Example: "Ya ne panimayu" (I don't understand) is a perfectly functioning sentence. Does this also work as "Ya panimayu nyet"?

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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Just how liberal is the word order then? If I were to say "Не говорите мне," is that as legitimate as "не мне говорите?"

Оn "нет"

[noser.livejournal.com]

Russian word "нет" is interesting. As far as I know, it is a reduced "не есть" (is not), and it had the following evolution: "не есть" -> "несть" -> "нет".

However, the "не есть" itself is still present in the language, with "есть" skipped as usual. In the contemporary Russian, "нет" and "не есть" mean two different things:

• "нет" means "no" or "[there] is no". In the latter case, it requires an object in Genitive. Example: "there is no spoon" = "ложки нет"


• "не есть" means "is not". Example: "I am not an American" = "я не американец/американка"

The rule of thumb is: "нет" = "no", "не" = "not". Hope this helps.