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[Lighthearted content] Numbers often used to make silly jokes around Europe (preview.redd.it)

submitted 9 months ago by Blaze to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

But триста and тракторист don't really rhyme. They sound a bit similiar at best. Could you explain?

[–] tetris3d@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sure. There's a thing in a lot of languages called grammatical cases. In basic terms cases make a word "adhere" to the rest of the sentence. Different languages have different amounts of cases. For example, German has four, Ukrainian – seven and Russian – six cases for nouns.

In this case the word тракторист would change to тракториста and it rhymes with триста.

The whole joke looks like this:

— Триста.

— Отсоси у тракториста!

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Понятня, спасибо. Я знаю о падежах, мой родной язык - немецкий, и я немного знаю русский.

And just to make sure no one reading this thinks speaking a little Russian means supporting Russias dictatorship:

Слава Украини!

Россия будет свободна!

[–] tetris3d@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Героям Слава!