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1. erst-
2. zweit-
3. dritt-

6. sechst -
7. siebt -
8. acht-

21. einundzwanzigst-
32. zweiunddreißigst-
100. hundertst-
1000. tausendst-

In german, the ordinal numbers are formed by adding -t to the numbers 1-19, and -st to the numbers beyond 19. Exceptions are erst-, dritt-, siebt-, and acht-

EX：　
お母さんが晩ご飯を作ってくれました。
お母さん晩ご飯を作ってもらいました。
お父さんがびしゅうつかんを見せてくれました。
お父さんにびしゅうつかんを見せてもらいました。
お父さんがアイスクリームを買ってくれました。
お父さんにアイスクリームを買ってもらいました。
私はホストファミリーにしゃしんを見せてあげました。
お母さんがかさを貸してくれました。
お母さんにかさを貸してもらいました。

Вчера был день рождения Виктора. Собралась вся семья плюс армия родственников: его родители (бабушка и дедушка Роба и Анны), всякие дяди и тёти, двоюродные братья и сёстри и много друзей. Было очень весело.

Yesterday was Victor's birthday. [Time marker/subject] [copula verb] [predicate noun] [predicate adjective?] [genitive noun]

All the family plus an army of relatives gathered: his parents (Rob and Anna's grandma and grandpa), all kinds of uncles and aunts, cousins and many friends. [Verb! first. Apparently.] [Adjectival particle? indicating totality] [noun subject] [plus... what part of language is plus? conjunction?] [noun] [noun: genitive case]: [genitive pronoun] [noun] ([noun] [coord. conj.] [noun] [noun: gen] [coord. conj.] [noun: gen]), [adjective] [noun] [coord. conj.] [noun], [noun phrase] [coord. conj.] [noun phrase] [coord. conj.] [adverb? adverb form, I think it's an adjective.] [noun].

What the hell, dizzy fit. You can go away ANY time now, I promise.

Managed to get a few more stories Behind-The-Scenes'd last night and got my year in review post up on Courtesan School, which means I just have a few more Behind The Scenes' to do today. And then that'll be done and I can sprinkle the fun bits like the dialogues and things all throughout. Move on to some other stuff. If I miss my word count goal this year it will be by about 1% or less. And that will mostly be due to Yuletide. But today I really should finish up the shinied up word count by project spreadsheet for next year for people on FYW or whatever. I'd join GetYourWordsOut again but... um. Their goals don't allow for a statistical outlier like me.

Oogh. I'd forgotten how annoying this house buying thing is when it means I can't start my Dragon*Con Costuming projects till the new year. And till March of the New Year, which leaves me with five months to build costumes. I much prefer having eight. Still, I suppose it's not completely impossible as long as I make a schedule and keep to it. I don't have to rebuild my Cheetara and Silk Spectre, it'd just be nice. We'll see how this house buying thing goes.

I have a pile of both organizational and writing work to do today and probably not much in the way of consistent time to get it done. Fridays is always the day when at least one person who's supposed to be at the front desk wanders off for twenty minutes at a time at random intervals, which leaves the rest of us wanting to chew his feet off because we have to pick up the slack. On the other hand, less (or maybe more, I don't know) annoying because I don't actually have much in the way of real work tasks to do back here. On the other hand, it means I can't get writing done. Grumble. And on the third hand, none of the writing is text that needs to all be tossed up at once for consistency, so I can work it piecemeal and see what comes of that. At least there's that. Maybe if by some miracle I get enough stuff done I can go out front and spin some of this gorgeous silk/alpaca and he can wander in and out as he likes. Although I hate spinning in winter in the store because every time someone opens the door and comes in I get a cold draft all up my legs. Ugh. Might have to take a blanket.

Oh good, the dizzy fit went away. Right, then.

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бабушка и дедушка Роба и Анны -> Rob and Anna's grandmother and grandfather. The word order is inverted.

And yup, that sentence is another of the reasons why some of my sentences suck. The word order just doesn't always match, not when one gets into the pithy narrative, between Slavic and English (also Spanish and French) languages. Sigh. Anyway! Yes!

Also stupid stupid dizzy spells.

... *facedesk* Of course, because it's in the genitive. Dur. Hi, I know what I'm doign, no really.

No, it doesn't. Which explains why my grammar sometimes also goes base over apex, although usually I think more subtly than yours. I wouldn't bet on that, though.

YES. Fortunately it really has stayed away.

Dude, that was your one mistake in the sentence which was complicated. And it was. You do know what you're doing, it's just that things slip out one's attention sometimes!

*giggles, high fives* and that is why it is so good to have somebody point and go FIX THIS. \o hi, Anna. Also each other. ;) all of it.

Good. *wry* I kind of got dizzy (not the usual stand-up-too-fast) when I got out of bed yesterday, then spent most of the morning all... is it going to happen again?

Is this where I sheepishly go it didn't seem that complicated to me? And then you thwack me upside the head with how much I've been learning?

*grins, high fives* Damn right. All of us.

Yeah, me too. I'm pretty sure this is PMS symptoms, it's been noted and filed, so probably not anything to worry about. Just, incredibly annoying.

Pretty much. <3 Please not to be overfocusing on small errors!

YUS!

*nods* Good. I'm just glad it went away and you're steady now!

Yes'm. So noted. ;)

Oof. Steady and hungry. Soon I will have all the cheesesteak.

Has had food?

*snortlaugh highfives* And when I have time I've been trying to SAY why it's wrong. Of course, when you're writing pinch hits during Princess Bride this is not always possible. But. ;)

*high fives!* It's been all good. I sometimes really just need to be told, rework this sentence, or split this sentence, and I can simplify without losing meaning. They just sometimes... run away on me.

Uh-huh. *amused* Nuances in different language families: REALLY DIFFERENT. Maybe one of these days I'll work on picking up enough Russian to understand on a more intuitive level. *thinks* Assuming I manage to pick up Arabic, probably not for a couple years, though, since it took me awhile to get into the swing of Spanish. German I'm less worried about.

They really are. On the other hand, just being pointed out that something doesn't work makes me break it down and clarify it. Maybe I lose subtlety? But to hell with that, I want to be understood, too.

Heeee. *eyes her Japanese self-teach book, takes deep breaths*

Dude, was your word count goal like 1 bajillion words?

2k per day! Um... 730,000. I think. Not that hard! Theoretically.

Ulp.

I'd be surprised if I wrote 50,000. But you do indeed write like a mofo.

If it helps it's going down by half next year so I can do some of this self publishing stuff? Writing is what I do! Some people, I hear, juggle geese... ;)

I would so not be surprised if you wound up learning to do that next year: Russian, parkour, guitar, and geese juggling.

Not an eyelid would be blinked.

I love your turn of phrase sometimes, you know that?

Well good, because that used up all my creativity for the next 12 months.

I'm sure you'll find some! I probably leave puddles of it dripping from my coat when I walk. Or something.