Archives for: "January 2009"
Гулять
The verb pair гулять/погулять means “to take a walk.” It is often used with the preposition по followed by the dative case: «Мы погуляли по парку» “We took a walk around the park,” where “around” means “aimlessly here and there through the park” not “in… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (без пяти семь)
To say "at five minutes to two" a Russian literally says "without five two," where the preposition без means without and governs the genitive case. The "minute" words are often left out, but not necessarily so. When speaking of the minutes to one… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (в пять минут седьмого)
To the Russian way of thinking, the first hour the sixty minutes from midnight to (but not including) one. The second hour is between one and two. Therefore when saying "at twelve oh one" in Russian you literally say "at one minute of the first." The… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (без четверти семь)
To say "at a quarter to two," a Russian literally says "without a quarter two," where the preposition без means without and governs the genitive case. The word четверть means quarter and is a feminine third-declension noun which takes и in the genitive… more »
Когда? Во сколько? В котором часу? (в четверть седьмого)
To the Russian way of thinking, the first hour of the day is the sixty minutes from midnight up to (but not including) one a.m. The second hour is between one and two. Therefore when saying "It starts at 1:15" in Russian you literally say "It starts at… more »