ロシア語日記翻訳【130】

I’m Twotone, and I tried working 7 days a week.

Я — Твотон, и я попробовал работать семь дней в неделю.

解説

# ⭐ Clause 2: **и я попробовал работать семь дней в неделю**

## 🌐 Meaning
“and I tried working seven days a week.”

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## 🧩 Grammar Breakdown

### **и**
– Coordinating conjunction: “and.”
– Connects the two independent clauses.

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### **я попробовал**
– **я** — “I.”
– **попробовал** — past tense, masculine, perfective of *попробовать* (“to try”).
– Perfective → the attempt is viewed as a completed action.

→ “I tried.”

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### **работать**
– Infinitive: “to work.”
– Completes the meaning of *попробовал*:
**попробовать + infinitive** = “to try doing something.”

→ “tried to work / tried working.”

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### **семь дней в неделю**
A fixed idiomatic time expression.

– **семь** — “seven.”
– **дней** — genitive plural of “day.”
– **в неделю** — “per week.”

→ “seven days a week.”

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# ⭐ Full Syntax Structure

**Я — Твотон**,
→ identity statement.

**и я попробовал работать семь дней в неделю.**
→ coordinated clause describing an action.

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# ⭐ Summary

The sentence uses:

– A **dash construction** for identity (*Я — Твотон*).
– A **perfective verb + infinitive** to express “tried doing something.”
– A standard idiom (*семь дней в неделю*) for “seven days a week.”

Everything is grammatically straightforward but very idiomatic Russian.

If you want, I can also compare this structure with the Spanish version or show how Russians express “I tried to…” in different nuances (attempt, experiment, habit, etc.).