The inevitable ...

[Alina Israeli]

>Also interesting in this regard is what happens when a man puts himself in
>the shoes of a woman hypothetically, such as advising whether she should
>marry: Ia by na tvoem meste ne vyshel/vyshla by zamuzh. According to Olga T.
>Yokoyama (conversation, 1993), who raised this examples\, both variants are
>possible; the latter occurs with a greater degree of empathy.

The possibility of a male using feminine form is highly theoretica;
we do not find such data, while Google offers six examples of "ja by
vyshel zamuzh".

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Alina Israeli
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