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English translation: dog


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Russian term or phrase:coбaka
English translation:dog
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Russian to English translations [Non-PRO]
unspecified
Russian term or phrase: cobaka
i fed cobaky
ruslan
dog
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Iren
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +12dogIren
5 +1I fed the dog (cobaka) I fed the dogs (cobaky)Diane Fontainebleau Poch
4-AYP
1 +2I fed Sobaka (dog's name)
Jack Doughty


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +12
dog


Explanation:
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Iren
United States
PRO pts in pair: 23
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Fernando Muela
5 mins
  -> thanx :)
agree  maruf
14 mins
  -> thank you!
agree  Sheila Hardie
17 mins
  -> thanks!
agree  Remedios
31 mins
  -> спасибо, Инкогнита :))
agree  Сергей Лузан
51 mins
agree  Davorka Grgic
2 hrs
agree  Yelena.
2 hrs
  -> thank you!!!
agree  xxxNikita Kobri
4 hrs
  -> thank you everyone!
agree  Javalizard Pinky: alphabet is weird
10 hrs
  -> it is weird !
agree  steven tucker
12 hrs
  -> thanx!
agree  xxxOleg Pashuk: I see such strange combination of Latin and Cyillic letters in Russian chats all the time!
16 hrs
  -> may be :)
agree  AYP
21 hrs
  -> благодарю
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
I fed the dog (cobaka) I fed the dogs (cobaky)


Explanation:
You have two different endings.

Diane Fontainebleau Poch
United States
PRO pts in pair: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lilian Vardanyan: I fed the dog (cobaky)I fed the dogs (cobak)
2 hrs
agree  AYP: with Lill
21 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +2
I fed Sobaka (dog's name)


Explanation:
We ourselves have a cat which we have named "Koshka", so this might be a possibility. In such a strange mixture, who knows what case ending is intended or if it is grammatical or not? Diane's suggestion is also a possibility if the author of these words knows that собаки is the plural of dog but does not know about other case endings.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 10253

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lilian Vardanyan: Yes, it is a complete mixture of the alphabets especially. But using the word in the sentence, we will have different endings logically. I fed Koshka is right only in case if it is the name of the pet.Otherwise, we use"Я покормил кошку\собаку,кошек\собак
17 mins
  -> You know that, I know that, but does the person who wrote this sentence know that?
agree  Yuri Geifman: hey Jack, I used to have a cat named Koshka... (and a friend of mine called his cat Птиц)
3 hrs
  -> We could call ours Птицеед, except that she hardly ever catches any.
agree  AYP
19 hrs
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
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Explanation:
Руслан,
Если вы переводите на английский фразу, которая по-русски звучит как «я кормил собаку», то я согласен со всеми коллегами, которые ответили раньше.

В том случае, если вы хотите сказать, что вы на/в чем-то собаку съели (глагол “to feed” в разговорной речи можно перевести как «есть», «кормиться»), то вам лучше использовать следующие варианты перевода:
собаку съесть (на чем-л., в чем-л.) —
to be an expert at/in smth,
to know one's onions,
to know smth. inside out,
to know the ropes.

Тогда ваша фраза по-английски будет выглядеть так:

I know my onions,
I know the ropes.

Удачи!


AYP
Ukraine
Local time: 01:34
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 90

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Milana_R: Sasha, "I fed the dog", not "I ate the dog"
3 days4 hrs
  -> Милана, в разговорной речи глагол "to feed" можно перевести как "есть". Я смотрел в словаре Апресяна.
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