Time and date in Russian
Tell the Time in Russian: Intermediate
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Dear Russian learners! Today we have created a new test for you to help you master one of the most important aspects of everyday Russian speech, telling the time. Good...
Russian Genitive and Nominative Case to Tell the Date
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Did you know that to tell the date we use the Nominative case of an ordinal number, and to tell the date of an event or an action we use...
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Did you know that we use Prepositional (for example, "In the year 1993") and Genitive cases (for example, "In September of the year 1993") to say years in Russian? The...
Asking for the Time in Russian
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Did you know that there are 2 main ways of asking for the time in Russian? The question "What time is it now?" sounds in Russian: Сколько (сейчас) времени? Который (сейчас) час?...
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Did you know that we don't use any preposition to say that something happened on a particular day? We just use the Genitive case of the ordinal number in neutral...
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Did you know that you need to use Genitive case to tell time in Russian? To do so, you need to name an hour and then add (1) час, (2, 3,...
A thing to remember when we talk about the date in Russian
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What form to use: "первого января" or "первое января"? Actually, both forms are correct, but they are used in different contexts. Very often, students confuse them, so let's figure it...
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In Russian, the terms for "am" and "pm" are a bit different than in English. Instead of using abbreviations, Russians typically refer to the time of day using the words...
