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На ужин мы заказали плов с говядиной, а моя подруга — пюре со свининой.
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For dinner, we ordered pilaf with beef, and my female friend ordered mashed potatoes with pork.
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Breakdown of На ужин мы заказали плов с говядиной, а моя подруга — пюре со свининой.
мой
my
с
with
на
for
ужин
the dinner
Questions & Answers about На ужин мы заказали плов с говядиной, а моя подруга — пюре со свининой.
Why is it на ужин, not something like для ужина?
На ужин is the standard Russian way to mean for dinner / at dinner in this kind of sentence.
- на завтрак = for breakfast
- на обед = for lunch
- на ужин = for dinner
So На ужин мы заказали... means For dinner, we ordered...
Для ужина is grammatically possible in some contexts, but it usually sounds more like for the purpose of dinner or intended for dinner, not the normal idiomatic way to say what someone ate or ordered at dinner.
Why is заказали plural?
Because the subject is мы = we.
Russian past tense agrees with the subject in gender and number:
- я заказал = I ordered (male speaker)
- я заказала = I ordered (female speaker)
- мы заказали = we ordered
So:
- мы заказали плов с говядиной = we ordered pilaf with beef
Why is there no verb after моя подруга? What does the dash mean?
The dash shows that the verb is omitted because it is understood from the first part.
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