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if i want to say "It is (being) done" would i use сделано or делается? I'm confused because сделано is perfective and perfectives technically don't have a present tense, only...

How to translate: "Only the best parents get promoted to grandparents"

In English, if you want something to happen you say "Fingers crossed" or "I'll keep my fingers crossed" or even "I'll keep everything crossed" - do Russians have an equivalent...

I'm not sure if this is a common thing or if it's just me. I have been learning Russian through several apps for 4 months now and have learned over 500...

Hi everyone, I was wondering why when translating the following sentence, "son" is written in instrumental. I know that "Emperor" is written in genitive because it expression the relationship, but I...

I have three vocabulary questions about a story I'm reading: 1. If the story says that some party guests had started to "разбирать стол," which sense of разбирать is it? For...

This is a follow-up question to a question you answered for me almost 1 year ago! I understand that the verb учить , which usually means “teach” can also mean to...

I’m reading a Dual Language book in which the English translation of the Russian is “I was recently surprised by this simple thought”. The original Russian is “Я недавно...

What's the difference between Dative and Genitive with a "какой" question? Why "учебник русского языка" but "экзамен по русскому языку"?

Hi. I recently discovered a russian verb that followed both 1st ie -ю/-ешь etc decl type and the 2nd ie -у/ишь etc type. Possibly the word had two different meaning....

How to formulate verbal expression such as "I shall have been ..." e.g. "Next week I shall have been working at the firm for 30 years" "Next year we shall have been...

Hi, Is there a difference between скачать and загрузить meaning 'to download' and how do you 'upload' files etc in Russian? Many thanks

¿Por qué palabras terminadas en IA como Sofía se escriben София y no Софя y aún así no suenan Iya?

Hi, As I understand it предать means to betray and преданный means devoted; can преданный муж for example mean both 'devoted husband' and 'betrayed husband' and does confusion ever arise? Very many...

I note that there is no future passive participle in Russian (At least not in my Grammar book) which would would correspond to the English construction “This is a book...

Hello I was wondering if you might be able to help me comprehend and translate these lines accurately. I have worked on them for quite some time, and...

I know how to read 1/3 1/2 etc but how to read 2/2.5 and mathematical formulas such as 2/(1+3)?

Some say it's possible to read 32.1 as тридцать два и одна it's ok to read 5.6 as пять и шесть? how about really long numbers such as 1.23456? the formal way...

how to read latin alphabets in russian texts? for example chemical symbols or chord names in music? Do I read them according to their English pronunciations?

I'm writing Russian subtitles for an English movie. In one scene, a character starts speaking Spanish. If I were writing English subtitles I would display [speaking Spanish] while the character...

My “Barron’s 501 Russian Verbs” states that the verb хотеь is not used in the future tense of the imperfective aspect. When I feed Google Translate “ They will...

in connection with Hanna's question of Mar 12, how would you translate "жизнь в нас самих" into English?

Does Cepera mean Sergiy in English?

When using numbers is it possible to use short from adjectives in the neuter singular? I think I heard the following in a news report, but I'm not sure if...

I would like to know the translation of the phrase “Life everywhere is life” in Russian. I was reading Dostoeveky’s letters but they are in English and that particular phrase...

Could you tell me the words for basic arithmetic -- plus, minus, positive, negative, add, subtract, multiply, divide? I'm getting slightly different results depending on where I look, and it's getting...

Please tell me which Russian words may soon be borrowed in English.

I have seen English translations of Pasternak's poem "February" but I have been unable to find the original Russian version on the Internet. Could you help me with this? Thank...

Hi, I’d like to know what’s the difference between Куда-то vs куда-нибудь ? Could it be ok to ask : Вы едете Куда-то на новогодние праздник? Thanks, Silvia

What are the 11 types of verb conjugation in Russian and how do you know which on applies to which specific verb?