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23 - двадцать три

23 - (dvadcăt' tri)

24 - двадцать четыре

24 - (dvadcăt' chetyre)

25 - двадцать пять

25 - (dvadcăt' p'at')

26 - двадцать шесть

26 - (dvadcăt' shest')

twenty six

27 - двадцать семь

27 - (dvadcăt' sem')

twenty seven

Десятый (10-й) урок

(des'atiy urok)

Tenth lesson

УРОК НОМЕР ДЕСЯТЬ (№10)

(oorock nommĕr des'at')

Lesson number ten (#10)

AK: This means "I have no time"
некогда means /state of absence of free time/, /state of someone's hurrying/

AK: Word by word it is
"On/at me home is/be letter for you (pl.)."

Compare:
"with me at home" would be "со мной дома"

AK: This means "Do you (pl.) want it now?"

хотите ли вы его взять?

Use this phrase (mind modern orthography) in a normal conversation.
"Do you want to take it?"

Я сейчас не могу итти (3) к вам (4);
мне некогда.

AK: итти (old spelling) = идти (to go or to be walking)
мне некогда = I have no free time

AK: It's not clear, what will be "tomorrow" and/or who's speaking.
So here're two alternatives:

Ничего, я зайду завтра...

"It's nothing, I'll drop-in tomorrow..."

Ничего, я отдам вам завтра...

"It's nothing, I'll give (it, letter) to you tomorrow..."

AK : как раз [kak-raz] means here "at this moment when it's exactly appropriate"

дайте ему (6) письмо для меня, пожалуйста.

отдайте ему моё письмо

AK: "hand-in him my letter", to speak without theatrics.

Вы знаете, что он хочет играть в футбол?

(Written "футболь" in the original book.)

AK:
футболь (old spelling and/or error) = футбол
футболь! = "kick it here, as if you are playing football!" - a slangish command and/or joke

Я никогда не играю;
но извините, мне некогда.

мне некогда = "I have no time", "I'm in hurry"

возможно; итти (идти); играть.

УПРАЖНЕНИЕ

(oopra(d)jniĕniĕ)

AK: It's not clear what is it all about. Compare:

He himself here?
Is he here alone?

AK: This means
"She wants to go to you (to your pl. place) today or tomorrow.'

AK: It's written this way now.
болен ли = "ill /whether?/"

Он не может пойти к вам.

AK: Use this instead, in a real conversation
"He cannot go to you."

Он сейчас у меня.

AK:
"у меня' means, in this particular phrase, "where I'm now, near me".
And not necessarily "at my house" - it can be anywhere where "I" am.

AK-NOTE

Мне некогда : to me no when (no time).

-> there's no time, I have no time

Его : a neuter (письмо (letter) is neuter) accusative, similar to the masculine one.

Его - him / it - a neuter accusative - "I accuse him / it"
письмо - letter - is a neuter-case word ("it")

Compare:
его письмо - his (man's) letter
дай его - give it

Here is an exceptional verb ; the infinitive does not end in : -ть ;
moreover it is irregular :
итти (eetee) to go;

я иду,
вы идёте (ееd'оtt'ĕ),
он идёт (eed'ot)
:
I go,
you (pl.) go,
he goes

Итти is also spelt идти.

-> a verb with an exception

It's идти now, not итти.

У (вас) implies immobility;
к (вам) motion.

Он у вас: he is at your home.
Он идёт к вам: he goes to your house.

Whereas у requires the genitive,
к is always followed by the dative.

It takes a euphonic о (ко) before мне.
Она у меня: she is at my home;
она идёт ко мне: she goes to my house.

У вас - at your place, you have
к вам - (to go) to your place

Он у вас - he's with you now (in this particular case, when no other words present)
Он идёт к вам - he goes to you (pl.), he goes to your (pl.) place

The ending ovitch after a Christian name means son of :
Иванович, son of Ivan.

-> Иванов Иван Иванович - Surname, Name, Patronymic
It is more usual to call someone so (Иванович), than to use his surname (Иванов).

Ему : to him, dative of он, he,
whose accusative is его, him.

-> to accuse him - обвинять его

Возможно, possible;
remember можно, one may;
он может, he may;
может быть, may-be.

One more irregular verb :
я хочу, вы хотите, он хочет
I want, you pl. want, he wants.

хотеть - to want, to wish

Tweested English Section

То day's lesson is a little harder; but do not try to store at once everything into your memory : all this will recur later.