Холодно (часть вторая)
Yesterday we talked about the incredibly simple impersonal sentences in Russian. Of course that wasn't the whole story. If it were, Russian would be much too simple and not worth studying at all. What if we want to say that a person feels cold? Then we put that person's name in the dative case:
| Жанне холодно. | Zhanna is cold. Zhanna feels cold. |
| Глебу было холодно, поэтому надел куртку. | Gleb was cold so he put on a jacket. |
| Свитер — это такая одежда, которую надевает ребёнок, когда холодно его маме. | A sweater is a garment that a child puts on when his mother is cold. |
Of course you can use dative pronouns as well:
| Если тебе станет холодно, надень свитер. | If you get cold, put on a sweater. |
| Им было холодно, но нечего тёплого было надеть. | They were cold, but there wasn't anything warm to put on. |
| Мне часто бывает холодно, поэтому всегда ношу с собой куртку. | I get cold a lot so I always carry a jacket with me. |
3 comments
Don,
I love your blog! Here is a mnemonic device someone made up to help remember when to use надевать/надеть as opposed to одевать/одеть:
Надеть одежду, одеть Надежду.
Well Don these are those kind of extremely annoying errors native Russian speakers make all the time. I can name some of those:
1. одевать/надевать
2. ться/тся (шься/шся)
3. выйграть, андройд, Тайланд (the last one is believed to be correct by some people)
First of all… You are awsome. I read your blog every day since I don’t remember when. In fact, this is my стартовая сртраница.
Now, I want to ask: It is correct “одевает ребенок” as you wrote, or “надевает ребенок” when I was little, I always used to say “одеваю свитер” but now, as a grown up, I find out that “on myself” is надевать, и одевать это “кого", ребёнка, например. I’m not sure about all this.
Again, You are the greatest. I’m deeply greatful for your existence.
Cheers!
Lara.
Don responds: Oops, my bad. Slip of the tongue/pen/keyboard. Надевает is correct. The embarrassing thing is that I wrote on this very topic two years ago.
Actually, I suppose I can almost be proud of the error. When a foreigner makes the same errors as a Russian, it means he has made some progress in the language. I have a linguistically Russified Tatar in one of my classes who said the other day, “My brother and her went to the store.” Of course, the correct thing to say is “my brother and she", but this is exactly the kind of mistake that native English speakers in the US make all the time. The other students didn’t even notice because it sounded so natural. The anal-retentive teacher, however, corrected him…
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