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Why is налогоплатЕльщик the correct form, and not налогоплатИльщик?
In most cases, we derive nouns in -щик from verbs. We observe the following pattern:
носить - носильщик
давить - давильщик
морить - морильщик
красить - красильщик
просить - просильщик
лудить - лудильщик
We also have платить. So why it is…
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What kind of grammatical form is this?/ Что это за грамматическая форма?
Он ревмя ревёт.
It's clear that the phrase means an intensive and, possibly, frequentative action. But what is the grammatical meaning of the phrase? Is it a productive pattern?
Понятно, что фраза означает некое интенсивное и, предположительно,…
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Why is it "девяностОлетний", but "сорокАлетний"?
Why is it "девяностОлетний", but "сорокАлетний"?
Isn't it like the linking vowels in Russian are only "о" and "е"?
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When to make the "v" / "в" or to make the "g" / "г" in place of "г"?
When to make the "v" / "в" or to make the "g" / "г" in place of "г"?
Like the word "его" is said "evo", but phonetically it's said "ego".
Cпасибо.
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Where does the -и ending in "Ныне отпущаеши..." come from?
In Rachmaninov's Vespers, I stumbled upon this line:
Ныне отпущаеши раба Твоего...
Which should mean "Now you dismiss your servant". (It's a quote from Bible, that's how I know.) What baffles me here is the -и ending that I marked in bold. I would…
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Белка живет в дупле. Две белки выглянули из своих ...?
Дупло сущ., ср.рода, им.падеж, ед.число : (there lives a squirrel).
Then:
Две белки выглянули из своих [...](there will be a pl.noun in this field)
(a couple ways to answer ...)
Дупл
Дупел
Дуплей
???
The question is: why have Russians faced…
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Best Conlang for helping with Russian learning?
What might be the best or easiest constructed language to learn to help me learn Russian, and why? I have this suspicion that learning another related language can help me understand the Russian mindset better. Also, the cases are a major thing for…
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Почему "мазаный" здесь с одной "н"?
Бумаги пожелтелые, как деньги -- ещё целые, зацапанные, мазаные,
крест-накрест перевязанные.
Почему мазаные с одной н? Разве это слово не является здесь причастием? Перевязанные точно должно быть причастием, потому что есть наречие крест-накрест…
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"над вязаньем" или "над вязанием"?
Как правильно: "над вязаньем" или "над вязанием"?
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What is the rule for creating "readers" / "readees" pairs?
On twitter they say "ЧИТАЕМЫХ" and "ЧИТАТЕЛЯ" Is this pattern productive starting with the root of the verb (ЧИТА) and applicable to other verbs?
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What are uninfected forms and when should I use them?
I read in the Wiktionary article on осел that it is an "uninfected" form of another word. The term "uninfected" is a Google Translate'd output for the term "неёфицированный" used in the article. I think it may be gibberish, as I couldn't find any…
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