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[marisaurus.livejournal.com]

Hello! My knowledge of Russian is rather basic at the moment and I just have a quick question.

If one were addressing someone, thanking them for their words, would it be correct to say: "Спасибо за ваши слова, мой друг"?

Thank you!

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[chiyo-no-saru.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I have totally exhausted my own google skills at this point.

Что значит "солнцеклёш"? I know клёш is flare or bellbottoms, so my first thought was solar flare...?

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[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Can you guys tell me what техобслуживания and автостопом mean?

Thanks!

Case-government in Russian

[philena.livejournal.com]

I am looking for examples of verbs which can assign multiple cases to their nominal complements. I've come up with the following examples using the verb писать. Are they correct? If not, could you give me examples of one verb which can take different cases for its object? I would like to stay away from prepositions, so it should be just verb+noun.

1. Я писала.
I wrote.

2. Я писала письмо.
I wrote a letter.

3. Я писала подруге (об этом).
I wrote to my friend (about it).
[Can you leave out об этом, and say only Я писала подруге?]

4. Я писала карандашом.
I wrote with a pencil.

5. Я писала письмо подруге.
I wrote my friend a letter.

6. Я писала письмо карандашом.
I wrote а letter with a pencil.

7. Я карандашом писала письмо подруге.
I wrote a letter to my friend with a pencil.
[If there's a better word order, please let me know!]

It would be particularly great if there's a use of писать that allows a genitive noun complement, because then I would have a verb that can take a noun complement in every case that does not require a preposition (or nominative case, but that doesn't count for complements). Is there another verb that can take a noun complement in accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental? I'm having a hard time thinking of one.


Thank you very much. It might not seem so, but it is of vital importance to my paper on participles.