I did not know that about "nothing" but I am trying to learn a bit of Russian here and it can be a puzzling language to learn.
One would have thought that if you know that "yes" is "da" and "no" is "niet" then you should be more or less OK understanding answers to simple yes or no questions. Well not in Russian apparently. The answer I got to one of such questions was "da net navernah" (yes no navernah)! I could not understand why the answer had both "yes" and "no" right next to each other plus some "navernah". I asked what was "navernah" and was told it was "maybe". Brilliant. So the answer to a yes or no question was "yes no maybe". Awesome. And somehow it means "Probably not". Yeah, this is going to be hard.
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Date: 2016-08-28 08:09 pm (UTC)One would have thought that if you know that "yes" is "da" and "no" is "niet" then you should be more or less OK understanding answers to simple yes or no questions. Well not in Russian apparently. The answer I got to one of such questions was "da net navernah" (yes no navernah)! I could not understand why the answer had both "yes" and "no" right next to each other plus some "navernah". I asked what was "navernah" and was told it was "maybe". Brilliant. So the answer to a yes or no question was "yes no maybe". Awesome. And somehow it means "Probably not". Yeah, this is going to be hard.