Archives for: "October 2010"
Бутылка
Ok readers, guess today's word! ♪ 99 bottles of beer on the wall! 99 bottles of beeeeer! ♫ ♪ Take one down, pass it around, ♫ ♪ 98 bottles of beer on the wall…98 bottles of beer! ♫ The Russian word for bottle is бутылка. As far as I can tell there is,… more »
Компот
This morning I was reading about the Korean drink hwachae and realized “Hey, this is basically the same thing as компот!” What is компот? It is a beverage made, essentially, by boiling fruit in water with some sugar and then letting the liquid cool… more »
Голосовать
Soon we are coming up on November 2nd, that means Voting Day. The Russian word голосовать means to vote. Тhe root of the word is голос, which means voice. This captures the idea behind having the right to vote so well! The whole point is to make your… more »
Откуда
If you want to know where someone has arrived from, the word you use is the interrogative adverb откуда “from where”: Откуда ты пришёл? Откуда ты приехал? Where have you come from? Of course answering the question is quite complex since there are at… more »
Выбирать/выбрать
Выбирать is the Russian word for "to choose," "to select" or "to pick." Here is how you conjugate the verb: Imperfective Perfective Infinitive выбирать выбрать Past выбирал выбирала выбирало выбирали выбрал выбрал выбрала выбрало выбрали Present выбираю… more »