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What's the difference between "последний" and "прошлый"?
I don't see the difference between "последний" and "прошлый". For both words, I find definitions like "last", "past", "latest", and "recent". Are they interchangeable, or is there a difference?
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Are платье and платок connected? Did платье initially mean a square piece of cloth?
Are платье (platie) and платок (platok) connected? Did платье initially mean a square piece of cloth?
I know that the both words ultimately derive from the same PIE root meaning "flat" (from which the English word "flat" also derives). But does it…
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What is the right form of answer for the question "Where?"
в Хельсинки
OR
в Хельсинках?
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две пары = 2 or 4?
In comments on dasblinkenlight's answer to the question
"У меня оба часов/обеи часы/обои часы сломались"?
some write that две пары часов means 2 watches and три пары часов means 3 watches, while others write that these terms mean 4 watches and 6…
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Do Russians really use "Расход!" to say, "Let's go!"?
I was watching an episode of Better Than Us" (Лучше, чем люди) in Russian with English subtitles. Since I was actively watching, to the extent of making a vocabulary list from it, I noticed that the Russian for "Let's go!" was not "Пойдём!"…
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What does "Вон оно чё" mean
I'm studying the Russian language and I try to watch lots of Russian television series. Recently I have watched the comedy show Наша Раша and in a specific sketch a character Иван Дулин many times repeats something like the words: "Вон оно чё" or…
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Difference between Что and Почему?
What's the difference between "Что ты улыбаешься?" и "Почему ты улыбаешься?" or in some other similar cases?
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Are the word ноябрь or any of its forms ever abbreviated in Russian?
I'm referring more specifically to formal (official) texts — definitely not belles-lettres or informal speech. We know that abbreviations are frequently used in formal texts such as documents, but is it ever possible to abbreviate the word ноябрь…
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Difference between "тоже" and "также". Where to place "тоже"?
The first part of the question is straightforward.
Is there any difference between "тоже" and "также"? If so, what?
The second one is likely to have a "yes"-answer, but anyway:
When considering all the places one could put "тоже" in a sentence,…
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How to elegantly say in Russian, "He was never to get what he wanted or, at least, what he said he wanted."
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 was turning the military conference into an empty…
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What is Smerdyakov complaining about in the following passage of The Brothers Karamazov?
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov in the standard French translation of the novel and Henri Mongault, the translator, mentions in one of his notes that he left out the following bit of dialogue (the part in bold) between Smerdyakov and Marya…
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What's the difference between "люблю" and "обожаю"?
I was doing a Clozemaster exercise and it asked to translate "I love reading" to Russian. I thought of putting Люблю читать but the correct answer that the exercise wanted was Обожаю читать. What's the difference between those two verbs?
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What is the difference between "ещё" and "больше"?
I know they both mean 'more' ? But there useage seems to differ, is there a rule of thumb?
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What does the idiom "что уж там" mean?
I am very puzzled by the idiom "что уж там" and its sister "чего уж там". Let me show you a few sentences:
(1) Давайте везде курить, что уж там, детям в лицо: депутат Госдумы (Source)
(2) Да что уж там, благодаря им выросли экономики целой…
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