Archives for: "November 2010"
Передача
If you want to talk about a television program, one word you can use is передача. The word literally means transmission, so it can apply to a radio transmission or a satellite transmission, but in the context of TV it can be simply translated as… more »
Календарь
You ever get so busy that you forget what day of the week it is? I do. With work and school to take up most of my attention, I find myself suddenly realizing that I have no idea what day of the week it is! It's a good thing my phone has a Календарь on… more »
Свёкла
Many American students visiting Russia for the first time also eat foods that they have never eaten before, and among those foods are свёкла beets. That is not to say that no one eats beets in the US, but you mostly find them eaten by families whose… more »
Рукопись
Today's word is one that I personally haven't come across that often, but I like how it is formed. Words and their roots fascinate me, so it's nice to see a word that makes such sense. Рукопись means manuscript. It refers to text written by hand. In… more »
Переводить/перевести
The verb pair переводить/перевести means ‘to translate’ and is conjugated like this: Imperfective Perfective Infinitive переводить перевести Past переводил переводила переводило переводили перевёл перевела перевело перевели Present перевожу переводишь… more »