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IcySpider Posted 15 years ago
English in Russia

How / what do you think

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????? ?? ???? ?????? ?????? ????????? "??? ?? ????????" ?????? ???????????? ??? "What do you think?" ? ?? "How do you think?" ?????? ??????? ? "how" - ?????????????
  

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— Ruslana

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??? ???? ?????? ????????? ????????, ???????????? ? 'how' ? 'what'. ????????:

What do you think? - ????? ?????? ??????? ????? ??????? ???: "??? ?? ??????? (?? ????? ??????)"? ???????????? ???????????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ?? ??????-???? ???????.

How do you think? - 'How' ? ???? ?????? ????????????? ??????? ????????. ?? ????, ????? ?????? ??
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An English-speaker studying Russian would ask just the opposite: "Why do they say '??? ?? ???????' instead of '??? ?? ???????'? I don't want to know how they think, I want to know what they think!"
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Hehe that's why things can't always be translated literally. We should understand the 'underlying' sense of what we want to say.
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