Questions about conjunctions. A conjunction is a part of speech that is used to join two words of the same part of speech or two sentences together. Some examples of conjunctions are: "и" (and), "потому что" (because), "то ли ... то ли ..." (either... or ...).
Questions tagged [conjunctions]
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Сосед in genitive plural
Why is the word сосед declined as соседей instead of соседов since the stem ending is a consonant?
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Difference between "a" and "и"
I'm just not sure what the pattern is for using each, or if there even is one.
Lawrence DeSouza
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Beginning a sentence with "а": what's the principle?
I've been trying for some time to put my finger on what makes us choose, in everyday speech, between Где моя сумка? vs. А где моя сумка?, or Мы квартиру покупаем vs. А мы квартиру покупаем.
I'm not considering those cases where а clearly has its…
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What is the difference between "а то" and "а не то"?
What is the difference between "а то" and "а не то"?
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Будь: был бычу буду
жить: Ленин жил, жив, будет жить.
мыть: Раму мыл, мою, буду мыть.
быть: Я был, ____, буду быть?
Trident D'Gao
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Interpretation of the conjunction "a"
I realize that in the following passage, the conjunction a is interpretable as and. If I were translating this into Russian from English, I would have forgone the conjunction altogether and written two separate sentences. Otherwise, I would have…
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