My book only teaches past and present active participles!!!!!

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

I'm using "Russian: A self-teaching guide", and I've officially finished the book about 2 months ago. However, after visiting this website, I've now learned that there are gerunds and more participles to learn! I was wondering if someone can list and explain the remaining participles and how they're used and all that fun stuff.

Thanks,

Матик

Comments

[nominals.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not quite there yet but I found some web sites that might be helpful to you. Maybe doing a good search for "Russian gerunds" or for "Russian verbal adverbs" would help you find what you're looking for too.

Here are the links for gerunds: A Short Guide to Gerunds and Participles in Russian (http://www.russian.unimelb.edu.au/students/parts.html)
Gerunds and Participles (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/russian/Ruslang/pushkin/grammar.html)

Hope this helps some.

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[cema.livejournal.com]

Деепричастие, of course, is not exactly a gerund. It is translated as one, but is not one. For example, it is always an action and cannot be a subject ("living is easy") or object ("stop speeding"), and is not part of a verb construct ("I have been reading").

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Ясно.

[ex-eugzol340.livejournal.com]

О да, нам самим в этом сложно разобраться =))))

[ex-eugzol340.livejournal.com]

А, ну да, the working language и всё такое.

Oh yeah, it's hard for ourselves to investigate it. (I think it's not absolutely right translation, please correct me =) )