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Protect Your Home With Domovoi
If you want to protect your home, you do not have to install security cameras and alarms. You can get a domovoi. What is “домовой“ Домово́й (domovoi, domovoy, or domovoj – singular, домовы́е–domovye – plural;…
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Are conjunctions necessary?
Если… а… но… Three perhaps most commonly used сою́зов в ру́сском языке́ (conjunctions in Russian), aside from “и”, and exactly how much I got to say as a kid when trying to convince my parents to get me дома́шнего пито́мца (a pet). It…
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Russian Proverbs About Spring
Probably, people in Russia do not await any other season as much as spring. Finally, the snow melted, the birds started singing, and nature began to acquire bright colors. For a long time in Russia, spring was treated with gratitude and…
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Are conjunctions necessary? Part II
We’ve talked about Russian sentences without conjunctions before, but we’ve yet to discuss my favorite Russian punctuation sign “тире́” (dash) and its role in these бессою́зных предложе́ниях (sentences without conjunctions). There are…
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Why does Russian sound so scary?
Getty Images; Leonid Gaidai / Mosfilm, 1965
Do you, like many others, believe that Russians are constantly barking unpleasant things at each other when they speak? Well, you’d be wrong. It’s just how we…
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