Archives for: "February 2009"
Смотреть/посмотреть
Today let's think about the verb pair смотреть/посмотреть, which is conjugated like this: to watch Imperfective Perfective Infinitive смотреть посмотреть Past смотрел смотрела смотрело смотрели посмотрел посмотрела посмотрело посмотрели Present смотрю… more »
Огород
When talking about food, it is important to mention the concept of огород, the individual plot of land, typically small, where people grow their own vegetables. Sometimes they also plant a few fruit trees, providing themselves with fruit: pears,… more »
Бум-бум
Every once in a while Russian throws you something so absurd that you just can't believe it, and today we'll see it in the slang phrase бум-бум which means "don't/doesn't understand": Он в математике ни бум-бум. He doesn't understand mathematics at all.… more »
Ролики
The Russian word for roller blades is ролики. A few months ago, my friend became very interested in learning how to rollerblade. She was determined to become good at rollerblading by the end of the month so that she could impress her boyfriend who was… more »
Как пишется… ?
Though this will sound very odd to English speakers, Russian has no single word that means "to spell." Russian spelling reflects pronunciation much more closely than English spelling. For the most part Russians don't need other Russians to spell a word… more »