The verb “to die” is умирать/умереть, and it is conjugated like this:

Here are some sample sentences:

Growing up in Arizona, every time the wind blew I would see tumble­weeds. In American movies they are a symbol of the vast and empty West, or sometimes of eco­nomic deso­lation in the country. Despite their asso­ciation with the American West, they originally came from Russia, and their Russian name is перекати-поле, which means “roll across a field.” The phrase is treated as a neuter noun and requires neuter adjectives and verb agreement.

In Russian перекати-поле is often used to describe a person who doesn't stay in one place very long. It's mostly a negative description since most Russians tend to be born, live, and die in the same area. Notice that when applied to a person, it takes masculine or feminine adjectives, depending on the gender of the person in question:

When you want to express the idea of putting shoes on yourself, one of the options is to use the reflexive verb обуваться/обуться:

Sample sentences:

The third example is amusing not just because of the self-centeredness, but because it rhymes.

Although this is a perfectly good verb, the Russians actually use the phrase надевать/надеть туфли more often to mean “to put on shoes.”

One of the consistent contrasts between Russian and English is that Russian uses simple verbs where English uses phrasal constructions involving verbs and nouns. One example is the verb обувать/обуть “to put footware (on someone),” which is conjugated like this:

Sample sentences:

The word обувь means footware: shoes, boots, waders… anything that protects your feet from damage or helps you walk. It's a feminine third declension noun with both plural and singular forms, although you almost never encounter plurals. It works mostly as a mass noun. Here's how it declines:

Instead of talking abouts men's shoes or women's shoes, the Russians discuss men's footware and women's footware. And of course there are always the styles of clothes to discuss.