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2025-07-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Strengthening the Foundation: Constitutional Change Prepared Russia for the Special Military Operation

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Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [157 views ] Top

#1 Second World War

Russian origin says "Special military operation" (I was puzzled).

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 09:29|| 2025-07-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Wrong tense, nd the translator assumed that SVO stood for Second World War.

Russians neerly everytime refer to WWII as the Geat Fatherland War, in which case the acronym doesn'r work.

Headline corrected.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 10:58|| 2025-07-05 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 The last prepostional phrase is in the dative case, which in many cases I have a hard time with translating, espeically when there is no coresponding word ending.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 11:01|| 2025-07-05 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 ^I had to look up "dative case".😀

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 11:41|| 2025-07-05 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I gave the book to you.

I, the subject noun, is nominative.

[The] book,the object noun, is accusative.

[To, or several other prepositions — which ones, specifically, will depend on the language. Some prepositions denote the accusative case, which in English leads to who/whom confusion] you is dative.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-05 11:59|| 2025-07-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ^😥

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 12:02|| 2025-07-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 I was told Slavic grammar is much more complicated because they kept the seven cases used in Latin. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-05 12:07|| 2025-07-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 ^I wouldn't know.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 12:22|| 2025-07-05 12:22|| Front Page Top

#9 If people would just speak English like everyone else, the world would go around much faster than it does.

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-05 12:27|| 2025-07-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 #5 In Russian, prepositions aren't used in the same way. When I see the Russian word k, which is one of the Russian words for the English 'to', is usually an indicator of use of of the dative case.

In Russian the dative case denotes action toward the subject of the preposition K. The dative case is not used spacially such as "I am going to Mosvka", which would translate to Я еду в Москву, as the B can be used as the Engish word 'to' or in the English word 'in.' You can see the subject of the prepositionsal phrase in the use of the Russian secial 'to' changed the end of the word for Moskva.

As in the dative case, if I use the phrase 'destroy Moskva' that also changes the word Moskva similar to the other case. It is the dative case since he action to toward Moskva.

As a direct translation. it would read "prepared russia to the SVO." To my English speaking brain, it makes no sense.

A better preposition to use would have been the Russian 'for': для, would have make better sense to me.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 14:21|| 2025-07-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The dative case is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, often referred to as the indirect object.

Ahhhh-SO! I recall the indirect object!

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-05 14:34|| 2025-07-05 14:34|| Front Page Top

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