Russian grammar
Russian grammar book with English explanations and exercise for beginners?
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Hello! What grammar book with English explanations and exercise can you recommend for beginners? Thank you!...
Subjunctive mood in the Russian language?
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Hello !I wonder, if there is a subjunctive mood in the Russian language, and if so, how it forms....
How can I know when the word is written with A or with O? How to distinguish them?
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Hi. I'm studying Russian on my own, it's difficult but I'll get it. One of my many questions is how can I know when the word is written with A...
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Please see the questions below. Are both questions right? If so, is there a difference in meaning? Question 1: У тебя есть интересная книга? Question 2: У тебя интересная книга? Thanks!...
Abbreviations of Russian grammar terms
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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....
Meaning of "Не бойся собаки, что лает, а бойся той, что молчит да хвостом виляет"
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"Не бойся собаки, что лает, а бойся той, что молчит да хвостом виляет" Can you explain that что-construction in the proverb above? I know that there is another version with reads...
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If you want to learn Russian or already learning it, you should know that there are six cases in the Russian language. Prepositional by a lot of the Russian teachers...
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If you already started to learn Russian, you probably know that there are six cases in the Russian language. Accusative case, along with the Prepositional, by a lot of the...
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In most of the Russian courses, the Russian Dative case is the one you learn in the first weeks when you start talking about age (- Сколько тебе лет? –...
Fleeting vowel in words ending with -ец and -ок
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It is good to know that masculine nouns that have -ок and -ец in the end lose the vowels о and е in all forms except Nom.sg. That is why...
Masculine plural nouns ending with -а and -я
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As a general rule, masculine plural nouns end in -ы or -и, but there are exceptions. For example, some nouns get the endings -a or -я, which is typical for...
Declension of surnames in Russian (part I)
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You may have noticed that different surnames in Russian are declined in different ways. Я много раз читала романы Фёдора Достоевского и стихи Александра Пушкина. Let's see what the ending depends on. ...
Declension of surnames in Russian (part II)
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Let's take a look at how female surnames change in different cases. Female surnames ending in -ая change just like feminine adjectives. They are relatively uncommon, though. Я смотрю видео с...
Russian superlative adjectives
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There are several ways to form the superlative degree of an adjective in Russian language. First, students learn the complex form of the superlative degree. In this form, the adjective is...
7-letter rule (г, к, х, ж, ш, ч, щ)
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The 7-letter rule is an important spelling rule in Russian that has no exceptions.The rule applies to these letters no matter where they are in the word - whether they...
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The 5-letter spelling rule applies only to the endings of Russian nouns, adjectives, participles and pronouns. After the letters ж, ш, ч, щ, ц, write o if the ending is stressed...
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In Russian language there are special words for the number 1.5 – ‘полтора’ and ‘полторы’. We use the word ‘полтора’ with masculine and neutral words and the word ‘полторы’ with...
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There is a limited group of masculine and neutral nouns whose plural form ends in -ья, regardless of the usual rules for forming plurals. Remember those words and don’t confuse...
‘Мой коллега’ or ‘моя коллега’?
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In fact, both forms are correct, because the word ‘коллега’ is a sort of a hermaphrodite. That means that the word can be masculine or feminine, depending on the gender...
