Шесть навыков успешных людей:
1. Нет2. Сегодня не смогу
3. Завтра тоже
4. Посмотрим
5. Точно не знаю
6. Если что, я сам позвоню
Six skills of successful people:
1. No
2. Can't do it today
3. Tomorrow too
4. We'll see.
5. I don't know exactly.
6. If anything, I'll call you myself.
Шесть
shest'
six
навыки
nàvyki
skills
навыков
nàvykaf
of skills
Numbers after five take the plural genitive. Шесть навыков genitive plural
Numbers up to 4 are followed by the genitive singular.
Четыре навыки.
успешные люди
Uspéshnye lyúdi
Successful people
успешных людей
Uspéshnykh lyud'ei
Of successful people
Нет
Nyét
No
Сегодня
Sivódnia
Today
Завтра
zàvtra
Tomorrow
Note the the letter в becomes soft and it is pronounced as f before т and some other 'hard' letters.
Russian distinguishes between soft and hard letters.
Also навыков. The в becomes soft at the end of the word and it is pronounced as f.
Посмотрим
Posmótrim
We'll see.
Russian verbs come in pairs смотреть-посмотреть in a continuous, uncompleted and a completed form.
Here посмотрим is in the completed form and it denotes a completed action in the simple future.
тоже
Tózhe
Too
Точно
Tóchna
Exactly
The unaccented o is pronounced like a or more like a schwa in Standard Russian.
сам
Sam
Myself
