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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.

Здравствуйте! 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.

Здравствуйте! 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...

Здравствуйте! Мне надо задать вопросы. В чём разница между взять и взяться или брать и браться?

What is the difference between these words: Грабёж, ограбление, хищение, воровство, разбой? Thank you!

Is it well written? Does also mean push? Or "strive"?

Пожалуйста, объясните мне, какая разницаWhat is the difference between the prepositions "на", "для" and "за"?

I have bought the "Русский Класс Средний Уровень В1" book. I study Russian Language at home myself. But I can't check my answers in its study book 'рабочая тетрадь'. Is...

What, if anything, is the difference between болезнь and заболевание; between ОРВИ and ОРЗ? Also, would you pronounce ОРВИ as a single word (like вуз for example) - and if...

I already speak Russian language I know maybe 60-65% of it, how many hours a day and how months do I need to to practice to speak Russian like a...

What is the difference between Заеб*ть and Заеб*ться?

You have answered my question about the meaning of где то and how to use, You said that it is everyday speech. What I want know is where I can...

What it the difference between за один , за одного, за два, за двоих and so on, and how to use them?

Where do we use the long form and where do we use the short form?

Why russian people when the talk about height, they use где-то? For example, Какой у тебя рост ? У меня 170 где-то. What does где то mean?

What does Ничего себе mean?

How in Russian can you differentiate between 'treatment' and 'cure'; can the noun лечение mean both? How for example could you say that there is a treatment for a disease...

I'm under the impression that it is polite to use the imperfective imperative when inviting someone to do something; is it therefore more polite to say раздевайтесь rather than разденьтесь...