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Russian Audio Request

hoelzro
13 Words / 2 Recordings / 2 Comments

Вчера вечером моя жена и я увидели сову в мёртном дереву в дворе.

Recordings

  • Вчера вечером моя жена и я увидели сову в мёртном дереву в дворе ( recorded by Nelly ), neuter

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    Вчера вечером моя жена и я увидели сову в мёртвом дереве в дворе.
    Вчера вечером мы с женой. ..

  • Вчера вечером моя жена и я увидели сову в мёртном дереву в дворе ( recorded by ezhikpuh ), Ural

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    Вчера вечером мы с женой увидели во дворе сову на засохшем дереве.

Comments

Nelly
July 8, 2017

Your sentence is grammatically correct, but there is another way we talk about 2 people. It is weird, but it's natural to us. It's kind of "we and my wife" which actually means there were only 2 people - my wife and I.
I recorded both options, yours and mine.

Another example "мы с папой" means my father and I.

Another pronoun. Where a native speaker of a European language would say "my family" we would say "our family". Even when we don't talk to other member of its own family. Actually I realized this weird use of pronouns when an Ukrainian solder said in an interview "I really miss our family".

hoelzro
July 10, 2017

Спасибо за объяснение!