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Было is neuter gender. But выбор is masculine gender (выбора is genitive case of выбор?). Is there a grammatical reason or even historical reason I missed out?
Additional background: I’m a beginner ...
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I have always been puzzled as to why the Russians almost never use verbs of possession akin to "have" or "own."
Instead of such verbs, the Russians use the preposition у, whose ...
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Russian news articles about Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen, for example this recent one, always seem to transliterate his last name as Ферстаппен instead of (what I would expect) Верстаппен. What is ...
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My tandem-partner says короче. I asked her to tell me the meaning, but she refused to teach me 'bad Russian' (I don't know if she was kidding, though).
I've seen короче in Lingvo but that source ...
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The Ukrainian language is very similar to the Russian, but is it understandable for the average Russian native speaker, let's say, in Moscow?
Ukrainians understand Russian, but this is mostly because ...
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thanks in advance for your answers!
I have come across ")" in many Russian written conversations, for example:
<<Вид из окна на кухне)>>
or
<<Посмотри лучше это)>>
I have even seen "))" ...
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I understand how the expression is used pretty well, but wonder where did it come from?
What exactly does фиг mean?
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Как выглядит слово "дно" во множественном числе?
Одно дно
Два дна
Три дна
Четыре дна
Пять ???
Я знаю правильный ответ, но не знаю почему так. Хотелось бы услышать аргументированный ответ, ...
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