RL102-15 Russian basic grammar # 15

[mikemike20202020]

I shit myself when those demon voices came on at the start.

[willowmix]

Excellent lesson! Are you planning on ever doing another series? I'm nearing the end!

[usenetposts]

@willowmix There will be more. This series needs another 4 or 5 lessons before I can even get onto the 103, but I need time to plan it and execute it.

[Spark1390]

Ya doomayoo da. So unless the verb is in present tense, you can only use the endings in the 1st person?

[Spark1390]

Do the suffixes 'l' 'la' 'lo' and 'li' apply to all verbs when forming past tense? For example, is 'ya ponimal' i understood?

Also, could you elaborate on the prefixes and their effects on changing the forms and classes of verbs?

Thanks again for the vids!

[usenetposts]

You can only use the perfective aspect "ya ponyal" because the act of understanding is by nature perfective, Hence "ya ponimal" doesn't make logical sense. Ponyali?

[lordmoggy]

hehe yeah right ready for the pot , but if only they new the truth!

[lordmoggy]

wish i could pick up russian girls it must not be the way im telling them! ;p

[usenetposts]

Or, it could be the way you kinda look at them the way a grey wolf looks at a tasty lamb!

[MothmanCometh]

I read somewhere that Russians rarely smile for fear of appearing stupid. Is this true?

[usenetposts]

It's actually so that nobody confuses them with the Japanese.

Joking apart, Russians do smile, but the smile is sometimes considered "upside-down" as the corners of the mouth don't always go up. The smiling is more with the eyes. However, there is also a Russian proverb about causeless laughter which goes "Kto smeyotsya bez prichiny - eto priznak durachiny" - "Whoever laughs without cause - it is a sign of idiocy".

[MothmanCometh]

How is that written in Cyrillic?

Кто смеёця без причны - это признак дурачины.

Like this?

[usenetposts]

@lordmoggy It would probably be better if you just asked them, rather than told 'em!

[YashaTzirken]

Nevermind, I figured it out ^_^

[YashaTzirken]

Zahotelos' zovu diye i baba, no oni budut v Floride ves' myacets. Spaceba za pomosch'.

Esho raz, (sorry) :$

What does it mean here where you write "moyte", "moysya", "moytes'"? I don't understand when to use them instead, is what I mean.

[YashaTzirken]

Is it "колою" or "колю" then?

When you have this thing come up with present tense conjugations, do those endings always apply to 1 verbs or only the 1a's?

[usenetposts]

You should always take these videos together with the corrections given by real Russians.

The excel generated image applies to all the 1 verbs, the e becomes a yo if the last syllable bears the stress. The 1a verbs are ones in which preceding those endings is the same vowel which preceded the t' of the infinitive. The 1b verbs are all the other 1 verbs, which may have no vowel at all between those endings and the root, or else not the same one as in the infinitive, as here.

[BananasAndCream]

There's no "колою" there's "колю".

[usenetposts]

That makes sense but my dictionary seemed to put it that way and my wife was asleep.

[stiv2slava]

I thought this lesson would never come but now that it's here, I guess I need to start studying again. Thanks for all of your hard work.

BTW, you are continually producing videos, when do you find time to eat , sleep, work, perform other necessary functions like rearranging your sock drawer, etc.?

[usenetposts]

The trick is to fit in video-making around all the other things. Very typically the coding of the films once the production has happened I leave to run overnight when the computer isn't doing anything else.

[kenbank]

Thank you again, Prof. H. There is lot's of good material here. Enough for hours of pleasant review. All the best to you and your family.

[usenetposts]

Many thanks. Good to hear from you. Keeping busy, looks like.

[homousios]

Thanks a lot for putting up these lessons

[piscadil]

Dear Professor,

Thanks for making another wonderful lesson. Keep up the good work, my friend.