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Этимология слова «Глюк»
Как образовалось слово «глюк»? Различные источники утверждают, что оно произошло от слова «галлюцинация», но без дальнейших объяснений, а они так друг на друга не похожи
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Talking about perfective and imperfective verbs
Здравствуйте! I speak spanish, and I'm learning russian. We're studying perfective and imperfective verbs, like читать - прочитать. I get really confuse with some глаголы, like купить & покупать, i thougth they were imperfective and perfective…
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What are the various ways to say "." (period/dot/full stop)?
Examples:
- version 1.5
- period at the end of a sentence
- decimal point
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How do I ask "Really?" in Russian?
I already speak a fair bit of Russian.
In a classroom where I often study, I once wrote «покой» on the blackboard. When I came back on another day, someone had completed what I had written on the board with «нам только снится» :) ^^ And I wanted to…
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Baby fox, baby lion, baby X
I was trying to do an on the spot translation of children's book, that had the phrases, "baby bear, baby whale, baby etc" I wasn't sure because Russian doesn't seem to covert nouns to adjective as easily as English does. So I tried google translate…
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Why is "мне хорошо" an odd response to "как дела"?
I was told that "мне хорошо" would sound very strange as a response to "как дела", and indeed I've never seen or heard in such a context, but I don't completely understand why. I've seen it in contexts like this:
Мне хорошо рядом с тобой
What is…
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What is the difference between "рядом", "около" and "возле"?
These three words mean 'near'. It seems около & возле are synonyms. Can the same be said for рядом?
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Why is “had no choice” translated as «не было выбора» and not «не был выбора»?
Было is neuter gender. But выбор is masculine gender (выбора is genitive case of выбор?). Is there a grammatical reason or even historical reason I missed out?
Additional background: I’m a beginner Russian language learner and my tutor translated…
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Why is Max Verstappen's last name transliterated with a Ф ('F') instead of a В ('V')?
Russian news articles about Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen, for example this recent one, always seem to transliterate his last name as Ферстаппен instead of (what I would expect) Верстаппен. What is the reason for this? Pronouncing his name in…
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What is the Russian word that sounds like "bleen"
What is the Russian word that sounds like "bleen" that is a mild swear word? Ben Rich (Bald and Bankrupt) suggests that it translates to "bloody hell".
It is said at 6:48 in this video (caution: it has a man defecating, although you can't see…
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Только три процента всей воды на Земле явля(Е/Ю)тся пресной
Только три процента всей воды на Земле явля(Е/Ю)тся пресной
What letter should I choose there? Е or Ю?
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Use of genitive in Преступление и наказание
The following quote is from the beginning of Part 1, chapter 7 (Раскольников stands at the old woman's door):
"...и опять два вострые и недоверчивые взгяда уставились на него из темноты."
Why is "вострые и недоверчивые" in nominative? Does 'два' not…
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Comprehensibility of "Sub-Standard" Speech?
I suspect that this question may be both too specific and too vague for this forum, but here goes...
I recently tried to watch the film "Жила-была одна баба" (2011) -- I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone reading this, but I do think it has…
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Pronunciation of unstressed 'я'?
Is there a pronunciation rule for unstressed я?
I remember being told that it was closest to English i, for example, as in десять but this doesn't always hold. It seems that at the end of a word it can be either a or ya: бояться, сегодня.
At the…
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What does "калмыжка" mean in this context?
This is a sentence in Tolstoy's "Чем люди живы":
Идет сапожник дорогой, одной рукой палочкой по мерзлым калмыжкам постукивает, ...
I couldn't find the word "калмыжка" used elsewhere other than in this sentence, and the closest word I can find is…
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