Archives for: "August 2009"
Рынок
The Russian word “рынок” is the equivalent of the English word “market.” Just like the word “market” it is used to describe economic structures in which people trade, exchange, buy and sell, whether goods, specific services or valuable information. Here… more »
Письмо
The Russian word for a letter, in the sense of letters you send in the mail, is письмо. Notice there is a stress shift in the plural, and note also that the soft sign is replaced by е in the genitive plural: Sg Pl Nom письмо письма Acc письмо письма Gen… more »
Дефис, тире
No one on the planet is as joyfully anal-retentive as copy editors, those people responsible for the proper positioning of commas and quotation marks in printed works. In English doubtless their greatest joy is knowing the difference between a hyphen,… more »