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Best word to describe what a педант does?

Педант предаётся педантизму, точности, аккуратности. Педант практикует педантизм, точность, аккуратность. Нельзя использовать здесь слово занимается, поскольку педант - это не занятие, не профессия, …
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preposition "путем"

The preposition путём needs Genitive case, and means "with the help of", "by the means of", and it is rather bookish. Examples: Мы добьёмся решения этой проблемы путём референдума. В этом слу …
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Что делает змея?

Недавно один мой знакомый поляк, увидев русское предложение «У тебя в ванной сидит ящерица», очень удивился: «Как же так, почему „сидит“? Она ведь лежит, и по-польски тоже говорится „лежит“». Меня так …
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Oдин or раз (Rammstein Moskau lyrics)

The word один is used to tell the number of things, like один день 'one day' or один человек 'one person', but раз is used in the sequence раз два три when you count objects, like pointing your index …
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How is являться different from есть and быть

Являться is used in formal texts, like laws or technical documentation, or scientific research. It is used for clearness, for every sentence and every clause to have at least one verb. In a similar wa …
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Is there a difference between "Он не был там." and "Его там не было."?

Его там не было corresponds to the Past Simple phrase “he wasn't there [at that time]” meaning either “he was absent” or “he was somewhere else”: • Ушли, а когда через несколько минут вернулись, его …
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What is the difference in meaning between "Это моя машина" and "Эта моя машина"?

There is a related question here, “Они братья” but “Это упражнения” - why different pronouns?, see my answer there. In Russian, the English construction this is / these are are always rendered as это …
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Using "его" и "это"

Let me put it in a more systematized way. And no, it has nothing to do with tenses. In English he refers only to male living beings, but in Russian он refers both to male living beings and also to an …
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What is the different between "присылать" and "посылать"?

Послал means sending was done, without mentioning if it was delivered to the addressee. Прислал means it was sent and delivered.
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плескать / плескаться

"Плескать" (perfective "плеснуть") means 'to splash some liquid somewhere or at someone', like in Он плеснул ей в лицо водой. - He splashed water into her face. Like this: On the other hand, …
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Is there really any difference between "чай долго остывал" and "чай долго не остывал"?

Your versions, colleagues, are based on the assumption that недолго and быстро are different enough to radically change the meaning of the sentence. What is a way to formalize that «нам хочется»? Do y …
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Difference between "вставать" and "встать"

The difference between these two words is a usual difference between a pair of an imperfective (вставать) and a perfective (встать) verbs. Besides, не встать! looks ungrammatical as imperative, perfe …
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Концепт VS концепция

Вам тут вообще никому не понять, что такое «концепт», ибо это понятие из эпохи настолько вам чуждой, что даже аналогию степени чуждости этого понятия вам мне подобрать навряд ли удастся. «Концепт» – э …
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выходить vs. уходить

Выходить is to "go / come out", уходить is "to leave, to go away", every dictionary has it like that. The noun derived from выходить is выход, which is not only "exit", but also "a way out". The noun …
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What's the difference between "люблю" and "обожаю"?

Люблю читать is 'I like reading' while your task was to translate 'I love reading'. 'To love' is neutral любить when referring to relationships between people, but when it refers to things or activiti …
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