📚🇷🇺 The Russian language continues to spark great interest in Cape Town!
This weekend, the Consulate General had the pleasure of attending classes of the weekend group organized by St. Petersburg State University.
✨ The classroom was full — students of different ages and backgrounds came together, united by their curiosity and love for Russian language and culture. The atmosphere was lively, warm, and truly inspiring!
👏🌍We are grateful to our teachers and participants for their dedication and look forward to the continued growth of this initiative and new opportunities for cultural exchange.
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👋Всем привет!
• Рассвирепеть (perf.)
[ra-svi-ri-pet']
To become very angry, furious, enraged
🔻It is often used to describe the behaviour of animals, but it can also be used to describe people.
🔻The verb comes from the Russian adjective свирепый [svi-re-pyj] furious, enraged.
🔻The prefix РАС- means 'to become' or 'to start to'.
Synonym:
• Озвереть
[az-vi-ret']
To become bestial
• Котейка рассвирепел и напал на человека.
[ka-tey-ka ra-svi-ri-pel i na-pal na chi-la-ve-ka]
The kitten became enraged and attacked the human.
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👋Приветствую, товарищи!
• Зализывать раны (после + Genintive) (imperf.)
[za-li-zy-vat' ra-ny (pos-le)]
=
• Зализать раны (perf.)
[za-li-zat' ra-ny]
SLT: To lick one's wounds (after..)
🔻Despite its literal translation, this Russian idiom doesn't refer to physical injuries. Instead, it describes the process of recovering from a defeat, setback, offense, or other negative event. It's about emotional and mental healing, taking time to recover strength and composure after a difficult experience.
🔻The prefix за- in the verb зализывать implies the completion of an action, bringing it to an end or a result. In this case, it signifies complete recovery.
Example (resemblance to actual political events is purely coincidental!!):
• После схватки кот и собака зализывали раны, понимая, что хрупкий мир может рухнуть в любой момент.
After their scuffle, the cat and dog licked their wounds, aware that their fragile peace could collapse at any moment.
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▶️Как кошка с собакой
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Догрызу завтра.
I'll finish gnawing it tomorrow.
• Грызть (imperf.)
[gryst']
To gnaw
• Сгрызть (perf.)
[zgryzt']
To gnaw off / to gnaw completely
• ДОгрызть (perf.)
[da-gryst')
To finish gnawing
• ПЕРЕгрызть (perf.)
[pi-ri-gryst']
To gnaw through
💢But colloquial:
• Грызться = ругаться (imperf.)
[ry-st'sya = ru-ga-t'sya]
To squabble, to bicker (not about gnawing!)
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Всё! Хватит! Я нагулялся!
Alright, that's enough! I've walked enough
• НАгулятьСЯ (perf.)
[na-goo-lya-tsa]
To walk/be out enough so that the desire or need for it is completely fulfilled
🔻In the reflexive verb нагуляться, the prefix НА- carries a core idea of doing an action to the point of full satisfaction, completion, or even excess. It implies reaching a personal limit or a sense of enough.
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👋Приветствую!
• ПЕРЕзарядить батарейки (perf.)
[pi-ri-za-ri-dit' ba-ta-rey-ki]
Meanings:
🔢Literally: to recharge a device's battery
🔢Figuratively: to rest and rejuvenate oneself, to regain energy and motivation after a period of exhaustion or stress
🔻Prefix ПЕРЕ- means REdo something/ do something again:
• ПЕРЕписать = to REwrite
• ПЕРЕчитать = to REread
• Устали? Время перезарядить батарейки!
Got tired? It's time to recharge batteries!
▶️Other meanings of prefix ПЕРЕ-
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• Зажраться (perf.)
[za-zhra-tsa]
🔸Conjugation
🔻This slang verb means to pig out,to become insufferably spoiled, arrogant, or fussy due to excessive food, comfort, wealth, or success.
🔻The prefix ЗА- in this verb indicates the beginning and completion of a process leading to a negative, excessive state.
• Жрать (vulgar: to eat/devour) metaphorically suggests greedily consuming comforts.
• ЗАжраться = to have gone too far in that consumption and to have become stuck in the resulting bad state (arrogance, spoiled behaviour).
🔻Think of the prefix ЗА- as marking the point of crossing over into a negative condition (and staying there):
• Зазнаться (perf.)
[za-zna-tsa]
To become conceited
• Зазвездиться (slang, perf.)
[za-zviz-di-tsa]
To get a big head from fame
Наш кот совсем зажрался!
Our cat is living the high life! = Our cat has it too good! = Our cat has become totally spoiled!
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I do hope you've been missing cats here😉!
• Гулять (imperf.)
[goo-lyat']
To walk, to stroll, or to be out and about
😉 But what if we add preffix НА- to the verb?
• НAгулять + Noun (usually weight, appetite)
To gain something as a result of walking:
• Нагулять аппетит (perf.)
[na-goo-lyat' a-pe-tit]
To work up an appetite
#useful_vocabulary
#just_cats
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Он всё ПЕРЕсчитал, один кусочек оказался лишним.😅
He counted everything, and there was one piece extra.
❓️What are useful prefixes with считать (to count)?
1. Считать (imperf.)
[shchi-tat']
To count, to consider, to believe
2. ПОсчитать (perf.)
[pa-shchi-tat']
To count, to calculate, to do the math
🔻Prefix ПО- indicates completion of an action.
3. ПОДсчитать (perf.)
[pat-shchi-tat']
Тo sum up, to calculate (focusing on the final result or subtotal)
🔻Рrefix ПОД- means adding up or tallying - as if gathering everything under a total.
4. ПЕРЕсчитать (perf.)
[pe-ri-shchi-tat']
Тo recount, to count again
🔻Prefix ПЕРЕ- means re- (again).
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👋Приветствую, товарищи!
It's gloomy, cold and rainy in my city today ... Hope your summer is way better than mine😔.
• (Не) Выспаться (perf.)
[ni vys-pa-tsa]
(Not) to get enough sleep
🔻The verb выспаться comes from the verb спать (to sleep).
🔻The prefix ВЫ- here signifies completeness, the conclusion of an action, and a sufficient degree/extent.
🔻The perfective aspect verb выспаться doesn't have the Present Tense forms, so, you can use its imperfective equivalent:
• Высыпаться (imperf.)
[vy-sy-pa-tsa]
❗️Don't confuse высыпаться (to have enough sleep, imperf.) and высыпаться (to pour out, spill out, be scattered, perf.).
The Past tense:
• Я не выспался (masc.,singular)
[ya ni vys-pal-sya]
=
• Я не выспалась (femin.,singular)
[ya ni vys-pa-las']
=
• Мы не выспались (plural)
[my ni vys-pa-lis']
I / we haven't had enough sleep
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Только не пересоли!
Just don't oversalt it!
• Пересолить (perf.)
[pi-ri-sa-lit']
😄Conjugation
🔻The prefix ПЕРЕ- added to the verb солить (to salt) creates the verb пересолить, which means to add too much salt, to make something excessively salty.
🔻Other examples with ПЕРЕ-:
• ПЕРЕстараться (perf.)
To overdo/try too hard
• ПЕРЕгрузить (perf.)
To overload
• ПЕРЕплатить
To overpay
▶️Переборщить
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🫥Закружиться (perf.)
[za-kru-zhy-tsa]
😄Conjugation
🔻This verb is derived from the verb кружить (to make something spin) with the reflexive suffix -ся and the prefix за- (it indicates the beginning of an action).
Meanings:
1) To start spinning, whirling: It describes the beginning of a rotational movement. Also about feeling dizzy:
• У меня закружилась голова.
I'm feeling dizzy.
2) To get caught up in the whirlwind of work, to be swamped/spun around by work:
• Извините, что не звонила, я просто закружилась на работе.
Sorry I didn't call, I just got swamped at work.
▶️Крутиться как белка в колесе
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Матерь котья! Бесконечный лоток!
Holy Cat Mother! Endless litter box!
• Бесконечный (masc.adj.)
[bis-ka-nech-nyj]
Synonyms (masc.adj.):
• Безграничный
[biz-gra-nich-nyj]
Boundless, limitless, infinite, unbounded
• Нескончаемый
[nis-kan-cha-yi-myj]
Endless, unending, interminable, incessant
• Непрерывный
[ni-pri-ryv-nyj]
Continuous, uninterrupted, unbroken, constant
❗️Note that the prefixes БЕС- and БЕЗ- mean the absence of something, and their choice depends on the following letter:
🔻if it's a vowel or a letter representing a voiced consonant, use БЕЗ-;
🔻if it's a voiceless consonant, a sibilant, or ц, use БЕС-.
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