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The winter holidays are approaching and today we decided to check how well you are familiar with the Russian Christmas and New Year traditions.
This quiz is designed for the upper-intermediate and advanced Russian students. All the questions and answers are in Russian.
In this lesson we conjugate the verbs дать and даться.
These are perfective verbs that belong to the first type of conjugation.
Imperfective – дава́ть / дава́ться.
Whether you are interested in football or not, you definitely could not miss the fact that just in a few days the next World Cup starts in Russia. Of course, we could not ignore this event as well, and prepared a small lesson for you on this topic.
The lesson is intended for the Russian learners of the intermediate level and includes a slow spoken audio. In the end of the audio recording you’ll hear a few questions based on the text of the lesson. We make a pause after each question, so you have time to try to answer it yourself. After the pause, we give the correct answer, so you can check yourself. Let’s begin! Study the lesson →
In today’s lesson of the series “Russian verb conjugations” we are looking at the conjugation of the verbs мыть and мыться.
These are imperfective verbs that belong to the first type of conjugation.
In today’s lesson of the series “Russian verb conjugations” we will conjugate the verb пить.
This is a non-reflexive, imperfective verb which belongs to the first type of conjugation.
Some time ago we have already published a lesson with a recipe of a traditional New Year’s Russian salad – Olivier. Today we’d like to offer you another traditional recipe – a herring under a fur coat. Don’t worry, it does not include any fur. The name of the dish comes from the fact that the herring is covered with multiple layers. In fact, the dish is simple and delicious. Give it a try!
This new Russian test is designed to check your knowledge of Russian slang. All the questions of the test are based on the episodes of Very Much Russian podcast (Очень по-русски). After anwering a question you’ll get a link to the related episode of the podcast. Study the lesson →
In today’s lesson of the series “Russian verb conjugation” we have the verb ‘вы́глядеть’. This verb is non-reflexive, imperfective, and belongs to the second conjugation.
In today’s lesson dedicated to the conjugation of Russian verbs хотеть and хотеться. These are stem-changing verbs, imperfective. They belong to the mixed conjugation.
Meaning:
– хоте́ть – to want,
– хоте́ться: мне хо́чется – I feel like (doing something).
Today in the series “Russian Verb Conjugations” we conjugate the verb понра́виться. This is an always reflexive and perfective verb that belongs to the second conjugation.