Archives for: "February 2010"
Красавица
The word красавица, which means “beautiful girl,” has the same root as «красивый», “beautiful or handsome”, «красота» “beauty” and «красный» “red.” Sometimes it can be translated as “beauty” as in the name of the famous fairy tales, «Спящая красавица»… more »
Летать
The most generic verb for travelling by air in Russian is летать “to fly.” It is a perfectly regular imperfective verb and conjugates exactly like читать: Imperfective Infinitive летать Past летал летала летало летали Present летаю летаешь летает летаем… more »
Побежать
Побежать is the perfective form of the verb бегать “to run.” It incorporates one of the four most irregular verb stems in the Russian language: to run Perfective Infinitive побежать Past побежал побежала побежало побежали Present No such thing as… more »
Собака на сене
Russians love their proverbs and pithy sayings. It is amazing how many of them we have and use excessively to express so many different emotions. It seems that we have one for every life situation. We love them almost as much as we do our swear words… more »
Говорить/сказать
The verb pair говорить/сказать means “to say, tell.” It conjugates like this: Imperfective Perfective Infinitive говорить сказать Past говорил говорила говорило говорили сказал сказала сказало сказали Present говорю говоришь говорит говорим говорите… more »