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... он случайно услышал обрывки их разговора: - Поттеры, все верно, именно так я и слышал... Why is the imperfective version of the verb слышать used in the second sentence despite the meaning is the ...

Подскажите, пожалуйста, как перевести адекватно выражение "пути-дороги" на английский язык? Спасибо!

Can the general calling conventions in Russian (for example - Dimitri Ivanovich Petrov will be formally referred to as Dimitri Ivanovich) be extended to the countries of the former Soviet Union (...

I recently shot through Manstein's Lost Victories in its English translation and later accidentally learned that the Russian translation of that book is titled Утерянные победы. As a learner of the ...

Прочитав Правила русской орфографии и пунктуации (1956 г.) п.96-99, я так и не смог понять, следует ли писать с заглавной буквы выдуманные автором названия существ или рас. Например, если взять зергов ...

I want to say, Almost all of the weeds are in bloom. which, in English, can also be stated (improperly?) as, Almost all the weeds are in bloom. So far is that correct? I think these two would ...

I would like to know if it is acceptable to use вести/водить as follows, when emphasising who is/was driving : На прошлой неделе мы ездили в Москву, и я водил туда и обратно. На прошлой неделе мы ...

In my Russian textbook I came across this example: я помогу Татьяне написать письмо. Why is помогу used with the perfective infinitive? I was expecting an imperfective verb, because "writing&...

Пусть неправильно по грамматике, но, если хочешь узнать где-то время, то нормально ли спросить "сколько время"? Меня не столько волнует граммотность, сколько естественно ли это звучит в ...

I got an assignment to translate the following text into Russian: But nothing in Voroshilov's carefully chosen words or courteous demeanor suggested the feverish activity in Berlin and Moscow that ...

How would one say "The difference between [object A] and [object B] is..." in Russian? For instance, I might want to ask "Do you know the difference between chinos and jeans?" A ...

Hur säger man ... på svenska? This common Swedish phrase means: How do you say ... in Swedish? As a student learning Russian, I instantly saw a striking similarity with the Russian language. Russians ...

So from what I have learnt so far, нет is pronounced "nyet" and Привет is "privyet". But in телефон it is "telefon", why is е used in this case and not э and why is it ...

A little granddaughter tells her grandma: ты ещё нас всех переживёшь (you will survive all of us) Grandma gets offended because she interprets it as a death wish. Is this reasonable?! Маленькая ...

I've been given the following task: "Let's suppose you have an hourglass that measures 7 minutes and an hourglass that measures 4 minutes, and you need to time 9 minutes by using only these ...

Здесь говорится, что в слове "выкосил" проверяемая, а не чередующаяся гласная. Укажите варианты ответов, в которых во всех словах одного ряда пропущена безударная чередующаяся гласная корня....

I was trying to read an online article, and got stuck with this sentence. В этой колонке я собрался поговорить о расизме и недавних выступлениях в США и Европе, а начал – о советской колхозной ...

I've noticed that verbs that normally take a direct object in Accusative quite often allow for Genitive, instead. For example, исправлять ошибку (Accusative), but Вы уж, будьте добры, не исправляйте ...

In his Language Manifesto of 1900, Nicholas II of Russia wrote: Вмѣстѣ съ тѣмъ приняты во вниманіе потребности частныхъ лицъ, коимъ и впредь обезпечена возможность обращаться въ правительственныя ...

My Russian teacher recently had us, his students, listen some audio recordings of what he called "authentic everyday communications of Russians." We had to understand the dialogues and ...

Is it grammatical to have multiple который clauses in a single sentence? For example, if I have an English sentence like: "I read a book that my friend recommended to me called 'Life'" My ...

I read the following comment online: Не сомневаюсь, что и вы умеете выражаться, да ещё похлеще, думаю. From the context, I gather that it means I have no doubt that you know how to go off on someone ...

Ставим ли мы двоеточие или тире в предложениях по типу: "Как вам писать - на русском или на английском?" "Какое это предложения - сложносочиненное или сложноподчиненное?" "...

Каким является предложение "Я не понимаю, стоит ли мне это делать" - сложносочиненным или сложноподчиненным. По школьным правилам, если я ничего не забываю, получается, что это ...

Какие должны стоять знаки препинания в предложении "Они чувствовали гордость, когда им удавалось быть такими же(,) или еще более(,) жестокими, чем СС"? Я, к сожалению, не могу понять, чем ...

I have read in various sources : «жизнь в полосочку» or «через полосочку в клеточку» Is this roughly equivalent to saying “life is up and down?” I’m having trouble finding an explanation of this ...

Вопрос вот в чем: чем обоснована причина постановки тире в предложении "Он оставался таким же, как и прежде, – спокойным, трудолюбивым, скромным"? Я считаю, что тире ставится по причине того,...

I had earlier asked a question about adjectives and participles, and cited this link: How to tell a participle from an adjective? I now understand the answer of the above link better - The ...

What's the difference between those two words? Can i use only влечь?

What is the difference between "лет тому назад" and just "лет назад"?

I'm trying to learn the lyrics and meaning of a song in russian (Мой друг - лучше всех играет блюз) and the first line is Поднят ворот, both unfamiliar words to me. A translation I found put them as ...

In English-speaking countries, when a child is being bad, parents often address her in full name to discipline. Do Russian parents do the same thing? I’m curious to know.

The word "это" appears in texts quite often. But sometimes it stays the same no matter what word comes after it, or sometimes it's declined according to the word it's reflecting. For example: Это ...

At first I thought short-form adjectives were quite easy after seeing how they are formed. But when to use them turned out to be more complex. Here I have 5 sentences that made me confuse since they ...

How should adjectives be formed after the verb быть? Он был богат/богатый/богатым. Фильм будет интересен/интересный/интересным. Он богат/богатый.

Geeky stuff - как бы вы перевели это выражение на русский? Поясняю. Это рубрика для статей о том как использовать то, чем обычно пользуются IT-шники (программисты, сисадмины и т.п. "geeks") для людей ...

Is there any difference between в общем and в общем-то, and how do they differ from вообще-то? I've always interpreted в общем(-то) as generally speaking/pretty much, and вообще-то as actually.

Правильно ли здесь то, что второе цитируемое предложение с большой буквы ("Для выполнения плана...") или так нельзя делать? Но также В.П. Аксёнов описывает поступки его коллеги, Макара Ивановича: ...

According to vowel reduction rules, the "е" at the beginning in some words like Европа Елена Екатеринбу́рг should be reduced just like "j+ɪ" (where "ɪ" stands for something very near to "и"). ...

I have come across this sentence where the verb жить is declined for the third person singular: Там живёт около 500 человек. Shouldn't живут be grammatically correct since we're talking about ...

The context is the following paragraph (from https://baaltii1.livejournal.com/198675.html): Этот разговор мы начали в Принстоне, прогуливаясь по тамошней жизни и красивому закату. Показалось, что ...

What is the Russian word that sounds like "bleen" that is a mild swear word. Ben Rich (Bald and Bankrupt) suggest it translates to "bloody hell". It is said 6:48 in this video (caution has a man ...

I read the Russian Declension Wikipedia article, which gives several examples for different adjective declensions. The article explains that masculine adjectives ending in the nominative in ий and ...

I understand that there are a variety of ways to say "probably," which depend on the context (my attempt at translation in parentheses): вероятно (a bit literary, more in reference to likelihood) ...

There is a phrase из лесу, meaning "from the forest". Also, you may say "из леса", which seems to me much more sensible. But I'm wondering if лесу really is some realisation of the genitive case, ...

The grammatical construction у меня, literally at/near me, is the Russian way to express possession and is also used to express proximity: У меня хорошая подруга. (I have a good friend.) Она сейчас у ...

Как переводится "would have been working" : В конце года, исполнилось бы 12 лет, как он работает \ работал \ работал бы в этой фирме, но его уволили \ но он был уволен?

I noticed that the accusative case is: •Меня→Me •Тебя→You (informal, singular) •Его/Него→Him, it (M) •Её/Неё→Her, it (F) •Его/Него→It(N) •Нас→Us •Вас→You (formal, plural) •Их/Них→Them But I also ...

so I'm learning a few phrases in Russian and I came across this sentence, but I'm not sure of what it means, like the few online translators that I have tried tell me that is something like "Here you ...

My name is Ilana, and over the years, many Russians have told me I have a Russian name. I am not Russian. Is Ilana a Russian name? I couldn't find it as a Russian name on Google. (I did find that "...