Russian participles
Russian Future Passive Participles?
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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...
Long and Short Forms of Russian Passive Participles
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Did you know that Russian past passive participles can have both long and short forms? Long forms are used for descriptions and short forms to express facts in passive constructions. For...
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Did you know that the Russian particle то is always written with a hyphen? One of its functions in the sentence is the emphasised comparison between two people of situations. Я-то знал,...
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Did you know that Russian participles always have the same form (case, number and gender) as the word they depend on? If the participle clause is used after this word,...
Russian Participles: General Characteristics
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Did you know that Russian participles can be imperfective or perfective, present and past. They take these features from the verbs they are formed from. However, they also have some...
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Did you know that the Russian word уже́ can be both an adverb of time or a participle depending on the context? We refer to уже́ as an adverb when...
Substantivized Participles in Russian language
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In the previous post, we looked at examples of substantivized adjectives in Russian. In this post, we will get acquainted with substantivized participles. Many of them are so familiar that...
