Aug. 9th, 2007

[identity profile] ammaelis.livejournal.com
take the verb дорожать. my dictionary says the perfective form is вздорожать. but elsewhere in the same dictionary it has the word подорожать, with a perfective meaning.

i understand that the prefix по– often means 'a little bit'. but is that what's happening in this case? i can find any number of verbs with several perfective forms. can i get away with any perfective form at any one time? or are there prescribed instances for certain occasions. if so, how do i work out which one to use?

thanks.

ё

Aug. 9th, 2007 01:44 pm
[identity profile] ammaelis.livejournal.com
also, is there a rule for when ё appears and disappears in a word? for example, олицетворЕние has the adjective олицетворЁнный, but in many other words ending in -ение the corresponding adjective ends in -енный.

are there rules for this or must it be learnt?

thanks.

ili kak

Aug. 9th, 2007 07:56 pm
[identity profile] marta-mb.livejournal.com
We have just studied various kinds of borrowing, and someone came up with the Russian expression ili kak. It's a Russian tag corresponding to English isn't it, Swedish eller hur, Canadian eh,  etc. I wonder how often it is used in Russian and where it comes from? Is it a borrowing or a native phrase? You can say:
Ty sdelal, ili kak? 'You 've done it, haven't you?'
Does this sound right and normal? How else can you express the same ?
[identity profile] olydiagron.livejournal.com
Hi! I dont' really understand the gammar here, in this Zemfira song. Why "остался"? shouldent it be "остались" or at least "осталось"? But I can clearly hear, she's singing "остался" (live album - can she simply be making a misstake?!) .

герой погибнет в начале повести
и мне остался его сомнения
я напишу о нём стихотвoрение

UPDATE:
Thanks everyone! Now I've learnt that she might be making a misstake by purpose / might be singing ostalisya / is actualy singing ostanutsya but with an L and without the U and T... (If she sang ostanutsya, that's what I would hear, since it makes sence...)

In short: I've learnt it is a mystery not just for me!!!! 
[identity profile] ulvesang.livejournal.com
I've heard some (relatively-)modern Russian music that was just brilliant and even had my main lecturer's seal of approval for training your ear for Good Russian™ (see post about Zemfira ;)). As admirable as this is, it means it will train me to not understand a word of Real Russian™ (for better or worse)-- though I could make great... political speeches? get good marks at uni? woo Russian girls? ;)

Anyway, it was still lovely. It was a vocal/keyboard/ballady type female artist who sang Anna Akhmatova's work as lyrics... or was it Marina Tsvetaeva's? Does anyone know who this vocal angel is?

Or even, does anyone know any other "good" modern Russian music? It seems that, besides Zemfira, all Russia produces rock and dance music that is very... Russian (for lack of a better explanation). Obviously the world has a smorgasbord of musical tastes, but something about (most) Russian music seems a bit... masochistic? ;)

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