Study Russian

Prepositions. They are king. Learn one werb with all prepositions – and you’ll know enough words to talk. Let’s take the word ехать . Ехать Выехать Проехать Доехать Заехать Въехать Наехать Переехать Объехать Подъехать Съехать Уехать Поехать Отъехать besides, there are many slang meanings that are not listed in here. But if you are interested - just ask.

As you know of the importance of stress in Russian, it is important to remember that Russian never has numerous stresses in one word. You may not realize how usual it for English words – congrAtulAtions, mUlti-lIngual, negOtiAtions etc. Whith this logic Russians tend to read all English word with same one stress.

Russian grammar is quite close to German. Instead of 4 German cases Russian has six. There is a special funny phrase that helps Russian kids to learn the names of these cases. Иван родил девчонку, велел тащить пеленки. Ivan rodil devchonku, velel taschit’ pelenki. Actually in translation it means “John has born a baby-girl, asked to bring nappies”. Funny, but the first letters of every word in this sentence corresponds to first letters in cases in “correct” order. Abbreviation Case Question to define case И Именительный Кто? Что? Who ? What? Р Родительный Кого? Чего? Who ? What? Д Дательный Dativ Кем? Чем? By whom ? By what? В Винительный О ком? О чём ? About who? About What? Т Творительный Кому ? Чему ? For whom? For What? П Предложный Кому ? Что ? For who? Wha...