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In the following Russian sentence, why is "весёлым человеком" in the instrumental? Его отец был весёлым человеком.
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I'm watching the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights with Russian subtitles. In the scene where Bond first spots the main female character, he says, in English: "Sniper. Two floors up, ...
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I was practicing my Russian with a friend when she wrote the following: "когда я пришёл на фестиваль, народу было не очень много, но позже очереди за едой стали слишком длинные." In this ...
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I'm learning declension charts for Russian nouns. Wikipedia shows the first declension chart as follows: Singular Plural Nominative -а -я -ия -ы -и -ии Accusative -у -ю -ию -ы/– -и/-ь -ии/-ий Genitive ...
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Ведь, действие переходит к объекту. И вопрос "управлять что?" вроде звучит нормально. Например: "Я управляю машину рулем и педалями." – Что управляю? Машину. Чем управляю? Рулем и ...
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Here's an excerpt from the discussion on Duolingo French course for Russian speakers : "Я люблю есть горячее." Перевод: J'aime manger chaud. — Вот тоже не поняла почему здесь прилагательное ...
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In this sentence: Книжная индустрия выдержала удар пандемией (source) why is пандемия in the instrumental? I understand that the sentence means "The book industry endured (survived) the hit of ...
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In "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar", Wade states that in the past tense, the nominative case is used to indicate a permanent state, e.g. "По профессии он был ботаник" "By ...
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I would like to know more about the distinction between the use of the instrumental (творительный) and nominative (именительный) case in the context of a predicate (сказуемое) parts of sentences in ...
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В конструкции этот день был долгим, прилагательное имя находится в творительном падеже, но вот здесь это был долгий день - в именительном падеже. Пожалуйста, скажите, всегда ли это правда ...
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I believe that the phrases in Russian for 'I was a student' is Я был студентом (instrumental case) and 'I was not a student' is Я не было студента (genitive case) and 'I am a student' is Я студент (...
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In the sentence, "русская культура создавалась веками", why is веками in instrumental case, and how would you translate the sentence? Thank you!
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Recently I stumbled accross a definition of how to use the Instrumental in Russian. It is very detailed and lays out very many different possibilities in a systematic way. It talks about the "...
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«Мальчик идёт под мостом» - «он проходит под лестницей». Why instrumental is used since movement is implied? I thought that instumental is used when the subject of the sentence does not change its ...
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I was trying to figure out how to say "x kilometers to the north/west/east/south of y". Which of these alternatives is better? Углич находится на двухстах километрах к северу от Москвы Углич находится ...
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