I got this a message from my friend with the following photo in which it says: "
Новый год уже совсем близко... Пусть Новогодняя сказка станет явью, а все мечты исполнятся.
As I understand it says:
The new year is quite close, let the new year fairy tales become reality and all dreams come true.
My questions about it are two:
1) What's the pronunciation of явью? (Yavyu or Yivu? two different local people told me two different pronunciations)
2) Why does it use "a" instead of "и" (=and)?
Right pronunciation of word "явью" is [ˈjævjʊ].
The conjunction "a" among others has two meanings: "but" and "and". It can be used in meaning "and" when we need to show the heterogeneity described in the two connected sentences. Compare:
Пусть Новогодняя сказка станет явью и все мечты - тоже!
и
Пусть Новогодняя сказка станет явью, а все мечты исполнятся!
The first sentence implies that both parts of a complex sentence are about becoming a reality:
Пусть Новогодняя сказка станет явью и все мечты тоже [станут явью]!
In the second sentence, the first part is about fairy tales, and second - about dreams, and in that sentence fairy tales become a reality, but dreams will come true (come true, not become to reality). So we use "a" instead of "и".
But if you use "и" in your sample, it won't be mistake. It will be just a slight change in the tone of the phrase.
The pronunciation of явью is [ˈjävʲjʊ].
А is used instead of и because the other clause starts with a noun and has a different verb.
Should the sentence be put this way:
Пусть станет явью новогодняя сказка, и исполнятся все мечты!
, it would have been used with и
