Archives for: "August 2010"
Выходить/выйти (часть первая)
The Russian verb that means ‘to exit, walk out of, step out of’ is выходить/выйти: Imperfective Perfective Infinitive выходить выйти Past выходил выходила выходило выходили вышел вышла вышло вышли Present выхожу выходишь выходит выходим выходите выходят… more »
Чёрт
The Russian word for devil is чёрт. It's a bit irregular because it becomes soft in the plural, thus it declines like this: Sg Pl Nom чёрт черти Acc чёрта чертей Gen Pre чёрте чертях Dat чёрту чертям Ins чёртом чертями In English it sounds rather quaint… more »
Понедельник
The word for Monday in Russian is понедельник. First a bit of history. The verb "to do" is делать. "To not do" thus is «не делать», and in ancient Russian one of the words for Sunday was неделя "the day on which you do nothing". The preposition по means… more »
С — часть третья (with)
Growing up in the US, children commonly say things like "Me and Johnny went to the store." Although it sounds perfectly normal to many people, it is considered terrible written style (and also bad style for public speaking), and grade-school teachers… more »
С — часть вторая (with)
We mentioned the other day that the preposition "с" + the instrumental case means "with." There is another context where it means "with," but we don't translate it as "with," and that is when two nouns are joined together as the subject (or object) of a… more »