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The thing is, убить is really a one-time action, so a perfective verb is used, but пытаться убить is far from being one-time, it took some time, there was a kind of struggle with what prevented the at …

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 …

Since Russian doesn't have as many tense forms as English, you often need to use different adverbs or adverbial phrases to express the idea in a more precise way. But in fact, you can rely on context …

You're absolutely right with the Russian translation, only to receive the silver medal is not a clause, it's an infinitive phrase. A clause should have a subject of its own. Anyway, with a real clause …

As opposed to the languages that need to use at least formal objects with their transitive verbs, like in Japanese you cannot simply say "I'm eating", you need an object, usually it's the formal objec …

There aren't many Russian verbs without a perfective counterpart. This site discourages asking and answering posts about making word lists, so I will just name some of those verbs and try to define wh …

Это одна из форм повелительного наклонения. У него много вариантов есть: «стоять!» (= инфинитиву) «встали!» (= прошедшему времени) «пойдём!», «пойдёмте!» (= формам будущего времени 1-го лица мн. ч.) …

Могу ли я заказать... means "May I order ..." Note, that both in English and in Russian, "I" (я) refers to "may" (могу), not to "order" (заказать), the latter being in the infinitive in both languages …

The verbs built according to the model на-<verb>-ся mean "to do the action so much that you do not want to do it any more, to do the action so much that you feel satisfied with the result". All the ve …

Actually, there is no contradiction, and стать does not have that many meanings as your English translations of those sentences suggest. Стать is a perfective verb that generally means 'to stand', an …

Есть глаголы с суффиксом -ну-, которые образуют прошедшее время c утратой суффикса -ну- и без добавления суффикса -л: замёрзнуть – замёрз, погибнуть – погиб, в то время как другие сохраняют суффикс … Всего глаголы типа «погибнуть – погиб» образуются от 60 корней, и в этой статье дается список тех из них, которые могут употребляться без приставки, но есть и такие, типа «привыкнуть – привык», которые …

What matters in you example is actually not the difference of Present vs. Past tense, but the difference of Imperfective vs. Perfective aspect. The Imperfective aspect has the meaning of the English …

This как refers to уже два дня, not to the verb. [Вот] уже period of time как means 'it's already been period of time since', and "Букля уже два дня как улетела" means 'it's been already two days sin …

Вынимать 'to take out' is used for taking out a material object from a material container, no way using it while talking about situations, wars, governments, banks, or anything that abstract. The same …

This is a typical imperfective/perfective pair of verbs, they are different in their aspect only. And they, actually, have the same root, -пад-, only in падать it is followed by a thematic vowel -a-, …