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Thank you for your helpful answers to my previous questions. I ran across a dual language e-book for Crime and Punishment. In the second paragraph of the first...

my dictionary says both are жарить but how to distinguish roast chicken and fried chicken?

Hi What do these words mean on this Orthodox cross I have? Thanks.

I'm getting the impression that in most written Russian text they don't distinguish between е and ё . The don't write ё, always e. For example, in...

I’m confused by something I’m learning in Rosetta Stone. There is a picture showing 5 apples, two of which are green. The text is Здесь два зелёных яблока I’m confused...

Wiktionary 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"...

I 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...

In 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...

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...

Am I correct in thinking that a чеповек can be a мучина or a женщина or a ребён|ок, ка ? If someone said "я вишу...

I 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...

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...

Is the abbreviation ЭВМ still used for computers or is it now an old fashioned term?

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...

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...

When asking how to get somewhere from somewhere else should you use из or от?

I'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...

I 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...

The 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...

I 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...

Hello! To check your general level of Russian, not only grammar, you have to do the whole test, including reading, writing, speaking and listening.

I 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....

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...

How to translate the Russian phrase "Я желаю тебе счастья, здоровья и долгих лет жизни"?

I 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...

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...

I 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...

In 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...

В чем разница между знать, узнать и узнавать?

Hello, I have a question. I would like to know my level of Russian.