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>>1063

I wish I could help you but I can't do more than telling you what every single word means because I recognise them as a Slav

I really have to learn proper Russian this year

>>1063

I don't know Russian but according to Google…

chto = what

toboy = you

takoy = such, similar

But "Ty kto takoy?" means "Who are you?", where "ty" means "you" and "kto" means "who".

>>1065

Google translate is pretty shit when it comes to translating russian. Also, a lot of particles don't contribute anything to the semantic value of the sentence, but are needed to be gramatically correct. 'Chto toboy takoy' could mean a number of things, hence the confusion,

>>1066

Hmm, let's see what I can do with Slavic case analysing logic.

čto is either nominative or accusative.

toboj is instrumental

takoj is again nominative or accusative, and it's an adjective

So it would be "what's so ??? with you" and there's one word missing.

I found this though.

https://books.google.si/books?id=4AF8BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155&lpg=PT155

>– Что с тобой такое творится?

>>- Čto s toboj takoe tvoritsja?

>– А что со мной?

>>- A čto so mnoj?

"What's happenning with you?"

"What with me?"

>>1065

I still don't understand Russian that well but wouldn't "Who are you?" just be "кто тебя"? тебя being accusative of ты or w/e.

And тобой is the instrumental case of it.

"Что такое?" means like "What's the matter?", at least in this case. So as far as I know it's just what you said, "What's the matter with you?".

>>1072

And couldn't you ask your russki friends about it OP?

>>1072

I don't understand Russian at all, I got that translation from this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_kto_takoy%3F_Davay,_do_svidaniya!

>>1074

Hm. ty kto sounds like a corrupt, likely rude version of kto tebya, and ty kto takoy could have an even stronger meaning "Who the fuck are you".

Now, replacing kto with čto, it gets even ruder (because you replace "who" with "what").