| Next, let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to the words |
| showing occupation. |
| Find these words and see how they're used in the dialogue. |
| Imagine |
| that you have just met a person and you want to find out what he does for a living. |
| For |
| example, |
| Вы студент? (Vy student?) |
| Нет, я не студент. (Net, ya ne student.) |
| Я инвестор. (Ya investor.) |
| Вы студент? (Vy student?) |
| Нет, я не студент. (Net, ya ne student.) |
| Я инвестор. (Ya investor.) |
| Are you a student? |
| No, I'm not a student. |
| I'm an investor. |
| First is the polite question. |
| Вы студент? (Vy student?) |
| Are you a student? |
| Вы is the formal version of you, which is appropriate for formal conversation or when you're speaking with someone you don't know well. (Vy is the formal version of you, which is appropriate for formal conversation or when you're speaking with someone you don't know well.) |
| In informal situations or with closer relationships, use Ты. (In informal situations or with closer relationships, use Ty.) |
| And then the answer. |
| First, the negative. |
| Нет, я не студент. (Net, ya ne student.) |
| No, I'm not a student. |
| And then the correct affirmative answer. |
| Я инвестор. (Ya investor.) |
| I'm an investor. |
| Okay, now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Ты учитель? (Ty uchitel’?) |
| Нет, я не учитель. (Net, ya ne uchitel’.) |
| Я врач. (Ya vrach.) |
| Are you a teacher? |
| No, I'm not a teacher. |
| I'm a doctor. |
| This is an informal question. |
| We already know this person. |
| Therefore, we use the pronoun Ты. (Therefore, we use the pronoun Ty.) |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern was the structure that our dialogues followed. |
| Я occupation. (Ya occupation.) |
| I'm an occupation. |
| Good news! |
| There are no articles in Russian. |
| And also, in this context, the verb to be is omitted. |
| Therefore, these sentences consist only of a pronoun and a word showing the occupation. |
| Interesting information about what children in Russia dreamed of becoming when they grew up. |
| In the 1960s to the 1980s in Russia, boys dreamed of becoming astronauts, космонавт, or pilots, пилот, and girls, teachers, учитель. (In the 1960s to the 1980s in Russia, boys dreamed of becoming astronauts, kosmonavt, or pilots, pilot, and girls, teachers, uchitel.) |
| In the 1990s to the 2000s, businessmen, бизнесмен, and actresses, актриса. (In the 1990s to the 2000s, businessmen, biznesmen, and actresses, aktrisa.) |
| And now, programmers, программист, and bloggers, блогер. (And now, programmers, programmist, and bloggers, bloger.) |
| This shows that these occupations were the most popular, respected, or profitable. |
| You can learn the country's history from these dreams. |
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