a few questions

[chirashi-don.livejournal.com]

1. what is the difference between: стирать/постирать/выстирать?

2. in a sentence like "вечер" (it's evening), is вечер a subject or a predicate? my teacher/textbook identifies it as a subject, but it seems like it should be a predicate, as the "it (subject) is" is omitted. this isn't really an important question, but I'm just curious as to how others would categorize it.

3. what is the difference (in meaning) between the imperfective future and perfective future?
Я уберу квартиру.
vs.
Я буду убирать квартиру.

thank you very much!

Comments

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

3 is the usual difference between perfective and imperfective forms. The 1st example means that you are going to do it and finish it (perfective verb,) the 2nd, that you are going to do it, do it and do it, but you do not know whether you finish the process or not.