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If i want to say "It is (being) done" would I use сделано or делается?
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...
How to translate: "Only the best parents get promoted to grandparents" in Russian
How to translate:
"Only the best parents get promoted to grandparents"...
"I'll keep my fingers crossed" in Russian
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" -...
Recalling Russian words when I need them
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...
Instrumental case in "Your father, the son of the Emperor"
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...
Vocabulary questions: разбирать стол, да да, болтаться за бортом
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...
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...
The Translation of "I was recently surprised by this simple thought"
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...
Учебник русского языка and Экзамен по русскому языку
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...