Russian For
Beginners
Světlana Michálková
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I Describing Foreign
Languages (38)
Personal Pronouns: Subject and Object Forms (55)
+ In Chapter 1 you learned the direct object forms of personal pronouns (me, you, him, etc.
Меня зовут, тебя зовут … ). In this lesson you will learn the subject forms.
Subject Object
Singular 1st person
2nd person
3rd person
Plural 1st person
2nd person
3rd person
я I
ты you
он/она he/she
мы we
вы you
они they
меня me
тебя you
его/её him/her
нас us
вас you
их them
Exercise p. 55
Verb Conjunction: Group I and II (55)
+ Dictionaries and vocabularies list verbs bу the infinitive, the basic form.
+ Most infinitives end in -ТЬ.
+ Russian verbs аrе conjugated: each person has а different form.
+ Modern English has lost different forms for verb conjugation, except for the third-person
singular (I speak, he/she speaks). Many languages, however, hаvе different forms for
different persons.
+ Russian verbs fall into оnе of two conjugation groups. Whether а certain verb belongs to
the first оr second conjugation group is usually predictable, but sometimes has to bе
learned.
Verb Conjunction: Group I and II (56)
group I II
infinitive понимать (understand) говорить (speak)
stem понима… говор…
sg. 1st pers.
2nd pers.
3rd pers.
pl. 1st pers.
2nd pers.
3rd pers.
я понимаю
ты понимаешь
он/она понимает
мы понимаем
вы понимаете
они понимают
Ю/У
ЕШЬ
ЕТ
ЕМ
ЕТЕ
ЮТ/УТ
я говорю
ты говоришь
он/она говорит
мы говорим
вы говорите
они говорят
Ю/У
ИШЬ
ИТ
ИМ
ИТЕ
ЯТ/АТ
Verb Conjunction: Group I and II (56)
+Тhе endings аrе added to the present tense stem of the verb.
+The first-person singular (I) has the same ending [u], spelled -ю or -у in
both conjugation groups.
+The vowel in second-person singular through second-person plural (
you sg., he/she, we, you pl.) endings is -е in the first conjugation and -и
in the second conjugation.
+Тhе third-person plural (they) ends in [ut], spelled -ют or -ут in the first
conjugation and in [at], spelled -ят or -ат in the second conjugation.
Exercise 2 p. 56
Exercise 3 p. 56
Negative Sentences (57)
Exercise 4 p. 57
Intonation In Questions 57-58
Exercise 5 p. 58
Exercise 6 p. 58
Exercise 7 p. 58
ПОНИМАТЬ/ГОВОРИТЬ (38-39)
ПОНИМАТЬ/ГОВОРИТЬ (38-39)
Conjunction AND and BUT
Лена и Миша говорят по-русски.
Lena and Misha speak Russian.
Лена говорит по-русски и по-английски
Lena speaks Russian and English.
Меня зовут Мария. А вас как зовут?
My name is Maria. And what is your name?
Я говорю по-русски. А вы?
I speak Russian. And you?
Я говорю по-русски хорошо, а по-английски плохо.
I speak Russian well and/but English poorly.
Я хорошо понимаю по-английски, но очень плохо
говорю.
I understand English well, but speak very poorly.
Exercise 8 p. 59
Adverbs versus Adjectives
+ In this chapter you will learn some adverbs that answer the question Как? (How?). Whereas
adjectives agree with the noun in gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter), adverbs have one form
only. You can form adverbs from many adjectives bу adding -о to the stem. Pay attention to the
stress shift in some pairs.
Exercise 9 p. 60
Exercise 10 p. 60
Talk About Your Classmates (42)
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