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36 - тридцать шесть

36 - (tridcăt' chèsst')

thirty six

37 - тридцать семь

37 - (tridcăt' s'èm')

thirty seven

38 - тридцать восемь

38 - (tridcăt' vossiem')

thirty eight

39 - тридцать девять

39 - (tridcăt' diéviĕt')

thirty nine

Четырнадцатый (14-й) урок

(chetyrnadcătiy urok)

Fourteenth lesson

УРОК НОМЕР ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТЬ (№14)

(oorock nommĕr chetyrnadcăt')

Lesson number fourteen (#14)

Interrogative form.
— Is the use of the interrogative particle ли quite clear to you?
Here are а few examples of it:

Она у вас сегодня : she is at your house to-day.
У вас ли она сегодня? (is it) at your house (that) she (is) to-day? (or : is she at your house...?)
Она ли у вас сегодня? (is it) she (who is)... or: (is) she at your house to-day?
Сегодня ли она у вас? (is it) to-day (that) she (is) at your house?

я здесь, I'm here ("I here");
он дома, he's at home, he's at his place ("he /at home/")
etc...

However, the infinitive быть, to be is used :

я хочу быть там: I want to be there.
Может быть: maybe.

The same :
у вас есть: you have ("to/at you is");
у него есть: he has ("to/at him is");
у неё есть: she has ("to/at her is").

Do you remember that его, him, to-him and её her, to-her,
become него and неё by euphony, after a preposition?
Для него, for him
для неё, for her

Absence of predicate

Мне трудно : (it is) difficult for me ("to-me difficult").
We have with the same construction :
Мне довольно: (it is) enough for me ("to-me enough").
— Вам нужно : (it is) needed for you (you need).
— Вам надо: (it is) necessary for you (you must).
— Это ему вредно: this (is) bad for him.
— Мне хорошо: (it is) well for me, I feel well.
— Ей невозможно: (it is) impossible for her ("to-her is-impossible", she can't take it (any longer) ).
— Мне ничего : (it is) nothing for me, I don't care).

The letter Г (gh) is sometimes sounded v, we saw it in
его (iĕvaw), his ;
сегодня (civ'awdn'a), today
etc...

Tweested English Section

The Russian spelling has been altered in 1918;
but many publications issued since then outside Russia have kept the former spelling which included a few more letters.
We shall make them known to you later.
In the meantime, if by chance you should come across a Russian text with the old spelling,
do not be surprised to see letters that you do not know.
We do not yet teach you the handwritten letters, as you do not need for the moment to practice writing.

Let us say once more that all we ask of you is to understand the texts of the lessons and exercises
and to repeat aloud each paragraph of the lessons and each sentence of the exercises immediately after reading them.
Do not try to conclude to general rules from a particular case;
admit that you must act a little as a parrot and give their chance to your subconscious faculties of assimilation.
You must not try to plough too deep ; we first get into the general atmosphere of Russian, and we take care to avoid all unnecessary theory.
Your acquirements, vague al the start, will become more and more distinct just as does a photographic plate in a developing-bath.