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As a non-Russian native speaker, one of the most difficult points to grasp from my viewpoint is to understand the differences between the different perfectives formed with preverbs from the same ...
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From Факел Нефтеперерабатывающих заводов by Pokuril Vplohom Meste: Волгоградский НПЗ прекратил работу после удара дронов ВСУ 06.11.2025. На нефтеперерабатывающем заводе в Волгограде повреждены ...
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I wanted to say, "I can do that (make coffee)" in Russian, and so I said "Это я могу делать." A Russian language speaker corrected me and said that I should instead use сделать. I ...
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For example, "my studies are going fine", or "my holidays are going well"?
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I recently came across the verb прозябать in a book. Its meaning is one of eking out an existence in the sense of enduring hardship and suffering instead of truly living. This to me, is an ongoing ...
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Neither of my dictionaries gives a perfective for this imperfective. Is there an appropriate perfective form of this verb, or should I buy better dictionaries?
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The way I saw it, «шутил» was potentially the past tense of «шутить». So, what's the reason for saying «пошутил»? Is it just to make the verb perfective? If so, does that apply to all verbs? All I ...
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I'm wondering what the purpose and meaning of "было" is in these sentences, and if it is a conjugation of "быть" or a separate word. The word "было" meaning "there ...
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In a charming old book "Russian Through Pictures" designed by Harvard University we have a picture of a mother and daughter preparing to enter a shop, and the text underneath says Они ...
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According to a table of frequency I found, the verb исходить ranks pretty high (1716 out of 100,000). However, since it has two usages and meanings, I wonder which one is most frequently used: in the ...
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I'm trying to figure out how exactly these aspectual variations modify the meaning of "Она́ не могла́ сдержа́ть слёз" in the following: Она не могла сдержать слёз. Она не cмогла сдержать ...
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Слово "презентую" это настоящее время несовершенного вида или будущее время совершенного? Одновременно ведь быть не может?
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I've already tried to use Tatoeba/reverso.net to find out whether the phrase is acceptable. They didn't seem to give much information, so I decided to check here. I really just had two issues: A) If ...
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The following perfective verbs are said to only accept perfective infinitives. забыть - to forget успеть - to manage, have time удаться - to manage, succeed суметь - to be able to manage получиться - ...
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For the verb живописать (to describe vividly) Wiktionary [en] lists it as imperfective; the [ru] Wiktionary lists it as perfective; while a database of verbs I has lists it as 'both'. The database ...
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