Archives for: "August 2009"
Большой
The most common word for big or large in Russian is большой. Notice that it is an end-stressed adjective: end-stressed adjectives always end in -ой in the masculine nominative singular. It declines like this: Masc Neut Fem Pl Nom большой большое большая… more »
Кто ещё? Что ещё?
We previously discussed the word ещё, which by itself usually means still. When you combine it with кто or что, it ends up meaning “else”: Что ещё ты хочешь? What else do you want? Кто ещё там был? Who else was there? — Мы поговорили о музыке и еде. — И… more »
Искать
The verb “to look for” is искать. The verb doesn't have a proper perfective. If you want to say "to succesfully search out/to find” then you want находить/найти or отыскивать/отыскать. to look for to search for Imperfective Infinitive искать Past искал… more »
Есть/съесть
The basic verb in Russian that means “to eat” is есть/съесть. Notice that the second letter of the perfective forms is a hard sign, not a soft sign. This is one of the four most irregular verb stems in the language. (The others are the stems of дать,… more »