Top new questions this week:
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In English, the term red flag is used as a metaphor to mean a sign suggestive of a possible danger or problem:
(1) Boyfriend not showing you his home is a huge red flag. (Link)
(2) I've just spent ...
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Some time ago I took a test in which I had to translate some short texts from Russian into English. One of them contained the following sentence:
По приходу домой она закатила истерику.
My solution ...
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Neuter (такси, пари... — ends in И)
Masculine (кенгуру, фламинго — indeclinable animal names)
Or is it feminine because it's a bird (птица)? Or maybe due to some other causes.
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I want to ask if the sentence "Мусоропровод забит жильцами" is completely ungrammatical (and why). As I know, we can surely say: "Стихотворение написано поэтом", "Роль сыграна ...
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Примерный диалог:
- Как дела? Много работы?
- Не( )много и не( )мало.
Как правильно пишутся наречия в этом случае?
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I'm looking for the nearest comparable phrase to this in Russian. This is a relatively common
expression meaning to be working at peak performance. I think more often than not it has the connotation ...
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Let's suppose I am writing a fictional but realistic story about a male zebra.
Here is the problem. On the one hand, the grammatical gender of the Russian word "зебра" is feminine, so it is ...
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Пытаюсь научиться говорить по-русски, если вы мне поможете, то я буду очень рад!
Всегда путаю и неправильно говорю вот эти слова:
позвонить звонить
отковырять ковырять
проставить ставить
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When somebody asks как дела?, what are the common things that I can use to answer?
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I have seen two words for "car" in Russian: "машина" and "автомобиль" or "авто". Which is most common?
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I believe, где is where? and куда is like, to where? or something like that
I am not sure D:
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In English, you call a person a dynamo to say that he or she is extremely energetic (e.g., she was a dynamo in London politics), but Russians mean something entirely different when they call someone a ...
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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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