И где весна?!
So, where is spring?!
• Весной и не пахнет!
[vis-noy i ni pakh-nyet]
It doesn't smell like spring at all!
🔻Some boring grammar stuff you can skip:
Весной =Instrumental case
Пахнет (3rd person singular) = пахнуть - to smell (imperf.)
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❤️Awww! Всем добра и хорошего воскресенья!
• Качаться в гамаке
[ka-cha-tsa v ga-ma-ke]
To swing in a hammock
1. Качаться: imperfective, reflexive (-ся = oneself)
2. В чём? In what? в гамаке: в + Prepositional case
• Летом мой кот любит качаться в гамаке.
In summer, my cat loves to swing in a hammock.
❓️А Вы любите качаться в гамаке?
▶️оne more meaning of качаться
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- Я больше не могу ничего делать!
- А что ты делал?
- Ничего
- I'm completely burnt out! I can't do a thing!
- What have you been up to?
- Nothing.
1. Я не могу ничего делать
I can't do anything
🔻 This is a lack of ability
💢 But if you add one more negative particle не:
2. Я не могу ничего не делать
I can't not do anything = I have to do something
🔻 This is a compulsion to act, the opposite.
▶️Double negation
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Кого бы ещё помирить?
Who else should I reconcile?
Donald Trump
• Помирить (perf.)
[pa-mi-rit']
=
• Мирить (imperf.)
[mi-rit']
Тo reconcile
To make peace between
To bring together
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- Не люблю, когда ты так делаешь!
I don't like when you do that!
- (Я) знаю, я специально.
I know, I'm doing it deliberately.
😉Doesn't this remind you of anyone?
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Так вот для чего эта штука!
So that's what this thing is for!
• Штука (штуки) (femin.noun)
[shu-ka (shtu-ki)]
1) A thing(s)
2) an amount of countable things, like: 3 штуки (3 шт.)
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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!
Вниз 🆚️ Внизу 🆚️ Снизу
🔢 Вниз (where to?)
[vnis]
Downward, in the direction of down
• Иди вниз по лестнице!
Go down the ladder!
🔢 Внизу (where?)
[vni-zu]
Down below, at the bottom.
• Кoт сидит внизу лестницы.
The сat is sitting at the bottom of the ladder.
🔢 Снизу (where from?)
[sni-zu]
From below, from the bottom
• Кот посмотрел снизу вверх.
The cat looked up from below.
🔻These three prepositions come from the noun низ(bottom).
💢There is a saying widely used in Russian in terms of the current political situation or decisions:
• Мы думали, что (кто-то) опустился на самое дно, но тут снизу постучали.
We thought that (someone) had reached rock bottom, but there came a knock from down below.
🔻It means that a situation was already considered as bad as it could possibly be. However, a new, even worse development emerged, making the previous one seem relatively better by comparison.
▶️Вверх наверх
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👋Добрый вечер, товарищи!
Let's have a quick look at expressing possession.
🔻Компьютер (Whose? кого?) takes a(n) adjective + noun in Genitive case:
A masculine noun:
• Компьютер моего русского друга
My Russian friend's computer
A feminine noun:
• Компьютер моей русской жены
My Russian wife's computer
A noun in plural:
• Компьютер моих русских друзей
My Russian friends' computer
BTW 'windows' is often called винда [vin-da] in Russian. Have you been impressed with the Russian one😉?
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🥳Today in Russia we celebrate:
• День Отшлёпывания
Spanking Day
🔻This holiday, established in 1998, despite its funny name, is aimed at eradicating corporal punishment of children!
🔻On this date, many people talk about non-violent methods of upbringing, which can be equally effective.
🔻Also:
• Отшлёпать (perf.,1st conjugation verb) (кого? + Accusative)
[at-shlyo-pat']
To spanksomeone
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Кошки: ходили, ходим и будем ходить!
Cats: We've been walking, we're walking, and we'll keep walking!
Кирпич. Индия 3300-1300 до н.э.
Brick. India, 3300-1300 BC.
Древнеримский кирпич из Англии.
Ancient Roman brick from England.
Манускрипт 15 век.15th-century manuscript.
• до нашей эры
[do na-shey e-ry]
=
• до н.э.
Before Christ, BC
=
Sometimes:
• От Рождества Христова
[аt razh-dis-tva khris-to-va]
=
• от Р. Х.
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