http://upthera44.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] upthera44.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] learn_russian2007-03-19 08:07 pm

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Could we get a discussion going on the various conversational uses of бывает? I've heard it used, I believe, to mean something like "It happens." Something like:

--Русские часто читают американские новости?

--Бывает.

[identity profile] freiburg234.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 06:26 am (UTC)(link)


всякое бывает — anything is possible (http://multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=phr&s=%E1%FB%E2%E0%E5%F2&L1=2&L2=1)