машина серебряная а не желтая.
дом красный а не коричневый .
девочка высокая а не старая .
мужчина низкий а не молодой.
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а не ( recorded by
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а не ( recorded by
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Corrected Textmore↓машина серебряная, а не желтая.
дом красный, а не коричневый .
девушка молодая, а не старая .
мужчина маленького роста, а не высокого. -
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I don't understand exactly your question.
If you are asking about short people, it is not a regional thing, it's bad translation on Livemocha.com.
low house = низкий дом
short man = невысокий/маленький мужчина
short wort = короткое слово
I was saying that someone from Russia told me they do in fact use низкий to describe people. I was wondering if this use changes in various parts of Russia.If you go on to the LingQ forum and look at "Very,very short lesson- can I still add it?" you can see someone who has corrected me.Thank you anway! Livemocha has a lot of bad translations.
It's bad Russian. It can be understood, but it is not good. Maybe, some people in some regions say so. I never say.
I was thinking up about your question.
I'd like to add that "низкий человек" might be translated as "mean man". But this is an old-fashion expression. It's a phrase from the 18-19th сentury. Maybe, it's the reason to avoid speaking this such a way.
We rarely use 'низкий' talking about the height of a person. Mostly it's 'невысокий' like Akinootoko has said. On the contrary, if you add a suffix, you actually can use the word (at least I've seen it in books, maybe classics). "Старушка была низенькая".
By the way, "а не" usually opposes things, so you have to use opposites, Your examples with tall/old and young/short seem to me weird.
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Hello! A couple of remarks...
Speaking about people, Russians don't say "низкий", but "маленький".
A comma should always be put down before the conjunction "а".
Дом красный, а не коричневый.