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how do you say "going to the opera" = в оперу?

what's the verbal adverb from писáть (Russian version of Ukrainian пишучи)

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[oryx_and_crake]

>>how do you say "going to the opera" = в оперу?
could be в оперу or на оперу, see here http://www.newslab.ru/review/60759

>>what's the verbal adverb from писáть (Russian version of Ukrainian пишучи)
пишучи sounds all right but somewhat obsolete; the peoper form would be probably пиша but it sounds very awkward and I don't think it's ever used

[oryx_and_crake]

peoper=proper

[ex-alicia-e-612.livejournal.com]

Иосиф Бродский во всеуслышанье говорит "пиша".

[oryx_and_crake]

Thank you for your contribution. Please note that the working language of this community is English. As to the problem in question, there is a proverb: Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi. Which means that what Brodsky can afford the mere mortals probably cannot.

[ex-alicia-e-612.livejournal.com]

ok, sorry

[ex-alicia-e-612.livejournal.com]

The fact is that I am referring to those cases where Brodsky uses this word form not in his poems, but in his lectures, and thus he appears not as Jupiter but as a usual person.

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

thank you

great link and addresses exactly the question I had

>> пишучи sounds all right but somewhat obsolete; the peoper form would be probably пиша but it sounds very awkward and I don't think it's ever used

so would it be different forms or phrases depending on context?

[oryx_and_crake]

yes. you will have to use some descriptive way, like пока я писал этот роман... or something

[ex-ex-zhuzh.livejournal.com]

no self-respecting opera buff would ever say на оперу!