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[belacane.livejournal.com]

Can the ver сродниться с чем-то be translated as 'to get the hang of something', as in 'to get the hang of a technique...etc'?

If not, how would one say 'to get the hang of something' in russian?

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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

How does the use of the formal you (вы) agree with other parts of speech in direct address to a single person?
This is something I've observed to be somewhat inconsistent in my conversations and courses in Russian.
Intuitively, since вы is a plural noun, I would think all adjectives and verbs would decline/conjugate
to a plural form, despite the fact that you are speaking to only one person. But I've noticed that in certain
situations people will use singular forms with the pronoun вы and this is confusing.

For instance:

Вы готовы?

but then you have...

Вы бизесмен? (*not* вы бизесмены)