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Допустимы ли выражения "на эмоциях" и "на характере" с точки зрения норм русского языка?
Довольно часто стали попадаться в речи и в письме эти выражения. Примеры употребления:
«Одержал победу на характере»
«Принял решение на эмоциях»
«Совершил поступок на кураже»
и т.д.
На мой взгляд, эти выражения (в особенности «на характере»)…
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"Темным-темно" - which case is used here?
Which case is used in the first word, and why? What is the grammatical logic behind the use of this particular case?
Темным-темно
давным-давно
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What is the logic behind "вялотекущая" attachable to an illness but not to a river?
In my understanding, "вялотекущая" means having a slow flux. This you would literally associate with rather with a river, but no -
вялотекущая шизофрения - ОK
вялотекущая река - NOT OK
Why? I understand that language can be quite irrational, but…
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What are some good Russian equivalents for the word "badass?"
I recently stumbled upon the following over in the English Language & Usage StackExchange:
What is a good synonym for “badass” that would be usable in a high school setting?
Truth be told, I stumbled upon it because after looking high and low for an…
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Why do some nouns take the genitive case instead of the accusative?
I recently came upon the sentence:
Мы хотим мира.
We want peace.
The first thing that went through my head was, This must be one of those animate masculine nouns that declines for the accusative case. Wanting to be sure, I decided to look it up on…
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«И беспечной птицей» - why instrumental?
Every source I can find of the lyrics of Тополиный пух claims that the song contains the following line near the beginning:
И беспечной птицей в небо улетаешь
If I understand correctly, «беспечной» is declined in the genitive case, which makes…
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Предложить деловую колбасу - should be served on business occasions to show respect?
Sometimes they say "offer salt & bread" to present as welcome; there is also деловая колбаса - business sausage? - what do they mean exactly and can you say "предложить деловую колбасу" analog to "предложить хлеб и соль" on business occasions? (and…
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Alternate shapes of cyrillic letters?
In the below image, the two characters underlined don't seem to have a match in the character map program I'm using:
The closest matches I can find are п and д, respectively. Are these indeed the matches, and if so, are those in the image perhaps…
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Как сказать "young blood" по-русски?
There is a slang English phrase "young blood" which can be used in place of "you". When a person speaks to someone who is significantly younger, and wants to indicate that something this younger person did or is in the act of doing is immature and…
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Pronunciation of "е"
Why is "нет" pronounced "nyet" instead of "net"? I was informed that the Cyrillic letter 'е' is equivalent to the Latin letter 'e'. Is this incorrect? If so, what is the equivalent of 'e' if one exists?
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What is "на ней" in the sentence "Посмотрели на крючок и увидели на ней рыбью губу" appearing in Chekhov's short story "Рыбья любовь"?
It seems to me that на ней in this context replaces на крючке. If so, why is the feminine pronoun она substituted for the masculine noun крючок? Or, if not, what does на ней replace?
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In "по-русски" - what does "по" mean?
In Russian you say "я говорю по-русски" (ya govoryu po-russki) to say "I speak Russian". What does the "по" mean there?
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When is it necessary to use a capital letter in the beginning of the sentence?
In English we have to use a capital letter in the following cases:
Beginning of sentence
Names (people or places)
Pronoun first-person singular (I)
What are the rules for capital letters in Russian language comparing to these three rules in…
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Is Pushkin Пу́шкин or Пушкин ? Does the у́ matter?
When I type Pushkin into google translate, it returns "Пушкин". On the other hand, when I look at english wikipedia, it says "Пу́шкин". Russian wikipedia also has "Пу́шкин".
Which should be used in an English publication? Should the APA-LC be…
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