Archives for: "February 2010"
Супер-пупер
Ever since I started writing blog entries, my friends have been begging me to write about «супер-пупер». This expression is similar to “super-duper” in meaning but, because of the obvious references, it sounds much funnier in English. The first time… more »
Говорить/поговорить
The verb pair говорить/поговорить means “to talk, have a conversation, speak.” It conjugates like this: Imperfective Perfective Infinitive говорить поговорить Past говорил говорила говорило говорили поговорил поговорила поговорило поговорили Present… more »
Говорить
One of the first words we learn in a beginning Russian class is говорить “to speak.” Although we should learn most verbs in Russian in pairs, in the meanings we discuss today it has no perfective partner. It conjugates like this: Imperfective Infinitive… more »
«У меня есть» or «я имею»?
Previously we discussed how the «у меня есть» construction can be equivalent to a I have construction, and we also discussed иметь, which means “to own, possess.” But if you look up иметь in some dictionaries, sometimes you will find something like… more »
Селёдка под шубой
Russians are very big on their холодные закуски “cold appetizers.” Amongst them meat and vegetable salads are very popular. These salads do not necessarily have lettuce in them. In fact most do not. Usually everything in these salads is pre-cooked; more… more »