Archives for: "January 2010"
Ёлочная игрушка
In the light of recent holidays I've decided to talk about something that gives our ёлка (New Year's tree) its holiday beauty. Ёлочные игрушки (ornaments) come in different shapes, forms, and colors to satisfy any picky decorator. In Russian an ornament… more »
Иметь
The primary meaning of the verb иметь is “to own, possess.” It's a fairly straightforward first conjugation verb: to own, possess Imperfective Infinitive иметь Past имел имела имело имели Present имею имеешь имеет имеем имеете имееют Future буду иметь… more »
Что (часть вторая)
The second meaning of что is “that” in the sense of “Mama said that she's going to whup your ass.” In other words, it is a conjunction that joins an introductory sentence to a bit of indirect speech: Мой брат сказал, что дважды два — четыре, но он так… more »
Светляк
At Christmas my niece played a tune by Owl City called “Fireflies.” I'm not into synthpop, but it touched me for some reason, and as my heart was bathing in the song's disconnected melancholy, I suddenly realized that I didn't know the word for firefly… more »
Что (часть первая)
The Russian word for ‘what’ is что. Although it is written with the letter ч, the nominative/accusative form of the word is most commonly pronounced [што]; in the other cases we do pronounce ч as ч. It occurs in all six cases: Nom что Acc что Gen чего… more »