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we give him the apple

28th December 2007 permanent link

Tim Ferriss’s keys to rapid language learning: Sentence Four in Russian. (Sentence One, Sentence Two, Sentence Three, Sentence Five, Sentence Six)

We give him the apple
Ми даём ему яаблоко

“Mi dayem yemu yablaka”. We give him [the] apple.

1. First person plural verbs are normally with “-m”
2. “ему”, “him”, has the same dative masculine ending as the noun in Sentence Three.

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