IHIVG
Member
- Joined
- Dec 18, 2009
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Russian Federation
Ah, 'art' is archaic 'are' here!!! :shock: Thank you. Of course I thought of it as a NOUN! Now THAT makes sense.
... my country, you
Are like good health...
Back to the Baltics. The way people pronounce Lithuania always sounded 4-syllabic to me -- [li-thuei-ni-a]. That's why I couldn't understand the stress on 'li'. The dictionary gives [li-thju-ei-ni-a]. (although this 'thju' is almost imperceptible in speech isn't it?)
Now I can see why 'li' has a slight stress given that Lithuania has 5 syllables:
O Lithuania my country thou. and this makes iambic tetrameter for me.
Now the only thing that I don't understand is the stress on the last 'a'.
Do you accentuate it when you read the line? It just sounds awkward to me if I do.
... my country, you
Are like good health...
Back to the Baltics. The way people pronounce Lithuania always sounded 4-syllabic to me -- [li-thuei-ni-a]. That's why I couldn't understand the stress on 'li'. The dictionary gives [li-thju-ei-ni-a]. (although this 'thju' is almost imperceptible in speech isn't it?)
Now I can see why 'li' has a slight stress given that Lithuania has 5 syllables:
O Lithuania my country thou. and this makes iambic tetrameter for me.
Now the only thing that I don't understand is the stress on the last 'a'.
Do you accentuate it when you read the line? It just sounds awkward to me if I do.