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Now covers questions about the usage of the Russian language in other countries.
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Masculine singular instrumental -ом, -ем, -ём
I'm a little confused... When does one use each of the three endings in the title for nouns?
Thank you
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Which это? Particle or Special Adjective/Pronoun
In the sentence,
"But that's not true."
I see a translation as
"Но это не правда."
I know 'правда' is feminine so it seems that the 'это' being used is the indeclinable particle, and not the adj …
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"She wants him to like her." - Where is "her"?
I saw this sentence in Charles E Townsend's, Continuing with Russian,
Она хочет ему нравиться.
She wants him to like her (in general).
and I wondered where the 'her' was. If it was a little more com …
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short, long adjective, adverb for two consecutive words
In Nicholas J. Brown's book, The New Penguin Russian Course - A Complete Course for Beginners (1996), there is an exercise (27.5 if it matters) containing a sentence;
Девяносто пять процентов тех, кт …
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Знаешь его брата - is 'его' in genitive and 'брата' in accusative?
There is this simple sentence I don't quite understand, grammatically;
Он думает, ты знаешь его брата.
He thinks you know his brother.
So based on things like,
Ivan's dog = The dog of Ivan
собака …
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case of pronoun changes adverb to/from predicative
First, there are not so many tags, right?
Now, I notice two sentences;
Ему интересно учить русский язык.
Learning Russian is interesting to him.
Он интересно учит русский язык.
He learns Russian in …
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clarification on the proper form of a possessive pronoun
Simple question at the end of my textbook (finally)...
I'm supposed to provide the proper form for a possessive pronoun in the blank:
Где ____ машина! Вы видели ____ машину?
Нет, я не видел ____ ма …
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«Для» или «за»? – This store is for the purchase of
I was writing a paragraph, and a sentence within (and the previous sentence) is, in English:
(The first store sells mostly bulk produce.) The second store is (a) traditional (store), for the purchase …
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“Быть” with tenses, gender, number but in affirmative sentences
A homework question, exactly quoted,
В этот период у нас было много неожиданных трудностей.
but in reviewing my previous question, When to use 'не было' and 'не будет' regardless of person, gender, …
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