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What's the purpose of своё in this sentence?
Well, there's no need to reinvent the wheel because when you have an idiom, the best thing is to look it up in a dictionary of idioms that will tell us firstly that it's an idiom, which means that we ...
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What's the purpose of своё in this sentence?
Why is своё in this sentence and why does it have this specific declension?
Отжить своё is a set expression literally meaning "to outlive one's own (allotted time)".
It's not a case of ...
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What's the purpose of своё in this sentence?
Нет, своё не имеет отношение к только ко времени. Есть выражения - отдать своё. Своё можно перевести как - own или what it had, what it might, that it will. Где it имеет отношение к внутренней силе - ...
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What's the purpose of своё in this sentence?
The word «время» is omitted, but implied: «отжить свое время» = «to live past one's time». So in this case, it means that the fern (папоротник) is very old or maybe even dead.
The phrase «отжить свое» ...
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