Archives for: "January 2009"
Совместная жизнь (однополые браки)
No discussion of marriage would be complete in the twenty-first century without addressing однополые браки same-sex marriages: Однополые браки в 2005 г. узаконили Испания, Бельгия и Канада. Spain, Belgium and Canada legalized same sex marriages in 2005.… more »
Совместная жизнь (вступить, заключить, состоять)
The most neutral of all the the marriage phrases is вступать/вступить в брак which means to enter into marriage, to get married. By “neutral” I mean that the subject of the verb can be a man or a woman, and the context can be religious or non-religious:… more »
Совместная жизнь (выходить/выйти)
When a woman gets married, the verb commonly used is выходить/выйти, which is irregular in it's conjugation: to marry Imperfective Perfective Infinitive выходить выйти Present выхожу выходишь выходит выходим выходите выходят No such thing as perfective… more »
Совместная жизнь (жениться)
When a man gets married, the verb commonly used is жениться, which is an odd verb in that it can be interpreted as either imperfective or perfective in this meaning. The woman he marries is expressed in the prepositional case as the object of the… more »
Совместная жизнь (жениться/пожениться)
Russian has several verbs that mean "to get married." To deal with them properly we have to make some distinctions: if we specify the couple that is getting married, then the most common verb pair is жениться/пожениться; if we specify the man who is… more »