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“I will win” in RussianWiktionary leaves the first person single future tense blank. How should I say "I will win" In the Russian cartoon "Masha and the Bear" I heard Masha used the word "побежу"...
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Russian imperfective and perfective aspects, one time non repeated actionsI have a problem understanding the use of imperfective in some sentences that appear to me as "one-time non repeated actions". Some of them use the imperfective form and some...
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Russian verb хотетьсяIn a story in a dual language book I ran into “воевать хотелось всем” which was translated as “everybody wanted to fight”. This short sentence raised 3 perplexing questions...
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How to say “clmb up” and “climb down” in Russian?Will you please tell me how to say the following sentences in Russian? Get down! (ask someone to descend from a high place) I climb up a ladder. I climb down a ladder. I'm...
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The Russian noun человекAm I correct in thinking that a чеповек can be a мучина or a женщина or a ребён|ок, ка ? If someone said "я вишу...
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Russian Names and SurnamesI noticed his father's name was Dimitri Ruskov. Yet virtually every page I found on this WW I general uses the former instead of the latter. Does the sequence matter...
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The Russian Expression “и точка”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYAf3JEB7Xc I am trying to understand the lyrics of this song. О, Боже, какой мужчина, я хочу от тебя сына. И я хочу от тебя дочку, и точка, и точка! I...
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Russian abbreviation ЭВМIs the abbreviation ЭВМ still used for computers or is it now an old fashioned term?
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Russian verb “to teach”My dictionary translates “she taught me Russian” as Она учила меня русскому языку. So if you teach someone something do you put the subject taught in the dative case, and...
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The verb “говорить”I had believed that Говорить corresponds to “speak/hablar” and сказать to “tell/decir” but after looking at Russian verb books and playing around w Google Translate (admittedly an imperfect source) I...
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Russian prepositions от and изWhen asking how to get somewhere from somewhere else should you use из or от?
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Russian language menuI'm supposed to be creating a menu in the Russian Language, for an Italian Restaurant. It's almost complete, except for this one item which I can't seem to put together. Google...
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The Russian verb статьI am getting the impression that the verb стать has a wide variety of meanings, rather like "get" in English or "llevar" in Spanish. For example, I see "вдрук...
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Russian DeclensionThe grammar tables in THE NEW PENGUIN RUSSIAN COURSE give just one example of a masculine noun ending in the soft sign - писатель, for which they give the accusative...
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Feminine Endings for Adjectives whose Masculine Nominative ends in ийI note from grammatical tables that the feminine genitive, dative, instrumental and prepositional for of the adjective русский is русской, and the equivalent for последний is последней. Suppose I...
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B2 level of RussianHello! To check your general level of Russian, not only grammar, you have to do the whole test, including reading, writing, speaking and listening.
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Abbreviations of Russian grammar termsI am looking for abbreviations for grammatical terms in Russian. can you direct me to a source. all my dictionaries give abbreviations for the English terms but not the Russian....
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Russian translation of “вместо батареек”In the story без паники! we have the phrase “вместо батареек”, “instead of batteries”. I looked up battery in my Russian Dictionary and got “батарейка”. My understanding...
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Translation of a Russian phraseHow to translate the Russian phrase "Я желаю тебе счастья, здоровья и долгих лет жизни"?
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Russian Genitive caseI ran across this sentence in a Russian instructional video “Я могу запомнить около 50 новых русских слов в день” My understanding is that a direct object is only in the genitive...
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Russian Expression “Кто тебя напугал?”In the short story «Без Паники!» which appears in New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in Russian the author writes “кто тебя напугал?” which the translator renders as “what...
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Russian songsI found the song on youtube, and maybe it is the song about Internal troops. But I couldn't find the title and lyrics of the song. So could you tell...
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Position of pronouns in RussianIn English an object pronoun always follows a verb, and in Spanish it always precedes the verb. It seems like there is no rule for that in Russian. For...
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The difference between знать, узнать, узнаватьВ чем разница между знать, узнать и узнавать?
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What is my level of Russian?Hello, I have a question. I would like to know my level of Russian.
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The verb тащитьЗдравствуйте! Я изучала глагола тащить но я не поняла оттащить, дотащить, притащить, затащить, т.д как могу я найти хорошую книга для этих глаголов? Я не могу изучать а интернете.
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New Russian wordsЗдравствуйте! Я нахожу новые слова каждвый день, но у меня есть проблемы. Например, я изучала попёрхиваться и поперхнутся, они различные или одинаковые? Я спросила, потому что, например, стесняться и стеснится...
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The difference between Брать and братьсяЗдравствуйте! Мне надо задать вопросы. В чём разница между взять и взяться или брать и браться?
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What is the difference between these words: Грабёж, ограбление, хищение, воровство, разбой. Thank you!What is the difference between these words: Грабёж, ограбление, хищение, воровство, разбой? Thank you!
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Does двигайся mean move?Is it well written? Does also mean push? Or "strive"?
