The verb готовоить/приготовить means ‘to prepare’ in the sense of preparing food, in other words ‘to cook.’ It conjugates like this.

First off, it can be used in the sense of ‘to know to cook’ in general.

Of course, you can also use it with the verb уметь ‘to know how’ in the same meaning, but then you'll have to use an infinitive:

You can also use the verb if you want to specify a specific dish or cuisine.

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The Russian word пчела means 'bee'. It is end-stressed in the singular and root stressed in the plural. It declines like so:

	Sg	Pl
Nom	пчела	пчёлы
Acc	пчелу	пчёл
Gen	пчелы	пчёл
Pre	пчеле	пчёлах
Dat	пчеле	пчёлам
Ins	пчелой	пчёлах

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Russia actually has an abundance of bees. Just a little while ago Russia sent some of their bees over to America to help revive the dwindling bee population. These Russian honeybees are really helping to boost bee populations around the world along with Italian honeybees.

Here are some example sentences:

The Russian word белка means ‘squirrel’. It declines like so:

Here are some sample sentences.

There are quite a few species of squirrels that live in Russia. There is even the Siberian flying squirrel, which is the only species of flying squirrel found in Europe. Ironically, Белка was also the name of one of the dogs that were launched into space on board of Sputnik 5 on August 19th, 1960. They were the first dogs in space. After circling the Earth in a space craft, they safely made it back down as national cosmonaut heroes of the former USSR. This year, a new cartoon was released about the two dogs, originally called “Belka and Strelka: Moon Adventures”. However, since not too many people outside of Russia are familiar with who they are, the title was changed to “Space Dogs”.

The Russian word крыса means 'rat,' as in the animal. It declines as such:

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Here are a few sample sentences:

That last sentence is the plot to the movie Ben. The movie had a famous theme song which was sung by Michael Jackson... Michael himself had a very odd life with friends few and far between, more comfortable with animals than people. Somehow his singing this song seems oddly fitting.

Russian has a word кот which means a male cat, in other words what we in English would call a tomcat. It's an end-stressed word, which means it always has the stress on the first syllable of the grammatical ending, if there is one, and on the last syllable of the word if there is not a grammatical ending:

Here are a few sample sentences:

The Russians have a phrase that means “very little” which is related to cats, and that is «кот наплакал», literally “the tomcat cried.” For instance,

* Warning: don't use the word нассать in polite company. It's pretty crude.