[Lighthearted content] Numbers often used to make silly jokes around Europe - eviltoast
  • tetris3d@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    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
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      10 months ago

      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!