Questions tagged [particles]
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What is the difference between разве and неужели?
I know that разве has some additional meanings, for instance the expression разве что/лишь/только. However in their principal meaning, разве and неужели are somewhat synonymous.
What are the nuances ...
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Is it correct to say, "Не врачам этого не понять"?
A former chief sanitary inspector of Russia, Mr. Onishchenko, recently said the following about the chief infection control doctor of the Stavropol region, Ms. Sannikova:
Она долго работает ...
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Stress on Particles and Past Tense
I am never quite sure when to stress particles such as не.
Also, I am confused about people saying that the a in the past tense feminine is stressed, and whether or not this is always the case.
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Inflection of particles
Yesterday I asked a question about the meaning of "научись," and it turned out that in the movie in which I heard this, it was not "научись," but "на, учись," where "на" is a particle.
Reading about ...
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Differences between the particles же and -то [duplicate]
I know that the particle же is used to remind someone of something they should already know. For instance, say my friend and I posted a nasty comment on someone’s Facebook, but then quickly deleted it....
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Interpretation of дажe и vs just даже
I came across the sentence:
Я даже и заме́длил до 85% и то не разобра́л текст.
...and wondered if the и is optional here, or if there are cases where the combination даже и has a special meaning. ...
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Does бы have to follow immediately after если?
I was taught that an unreal conditional sentence always begins with если бы..., i.e. бы always immediately follows если. However, I recently came across the following examples that indicate that there ...
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What governs the use of "и" in statements containing the conjunction "хотя"?
I recently got the following sentence from Duolingo: "хотя они все и великие писатели, вашa ученицa их не знает". Being a beginner, I'm confused by the 'и', which I'm interpreting as 'and' — ...
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What is the purpose of "то" in a "Если ..., то" construction?
I used a machine translator (DeepL, specifically) to translate the following sentence:
If I have breakfast, I usually have it before noon.
It gave me:
Если я завтракаю, то обычно я завтракаю до ...
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Interpretation of the particle "ведь"
In this passage, in response to a story about candies that contained Radium, does ведь have the force of "you see, I tried..." or does it justify the previous statement (exclamation) like a sort of "I ...
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What does "буде будет" mean?
Browsing the Internet, I saw the following sentence in a text:
(1) То, что буде будет считаться стильным и модным, какой принт стоит выбрать и как все это сочетать в нашем сегодняшнем фотогиде. (...
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Proper usage for "No X, Y, Z" sign?
I've created this sign for a bathroom in a property that I rent out:
(And yes, before you ask - I have fished several such items out of toilets in the past.)
Is the wording correct? I'm particularly ...
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