Questions tagged [russian]
An East Slavic language spoken mainly in Russia and neighbouring territories. For non-linguistic questions about the Russian language, visit our sister site Russian Language Stack Exchange (or Русский язык Stack Exchange, if you are proficient in Russian).
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What is the origin of the instrumental case of predicate in predicative nominals in Polish/Russian?
The syntax of predicative nominals and predicative adjectives in ancient IE languages and, as far as I know, almost every modern one :
Subject (NOMINATIVE) + copula + predicate (NOMINATIVE)
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Сoncept of an attribute usesd by Russian grammarians
Note: This is cross-posted on ELL.se at Сoncept of an attribute used by Russian grammarians.
I need to know all the attributes in theese sentences and how they are expressed.The problem is that ...
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Was there s-mobile in the PIE root for dog?
I have noticed a striking similarity between the French word chien meaning dog and Russian word щенок "puppy", the both words pronounced exactly the same way except the deminutive suffix -ок in the ...
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Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?
I wonder if the case system is devised/imposed by literates and not really natural: it is said that the vulgar Latin that most people really used didn't have e.g. the cases (or all of them) of the '...
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Origin of Russian class 6 and class 10 verbs
In Russian, class 10 contains only a handful of verbs ending in either -олоть or -ороть.
On the other hand, looking at the list in Wiktionary, class 6 contains only one verbs in -рать (орать) and ...
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Unknown language on back of paintings [closed]
Can you clarify what language these writings are in and what they say?
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Theory behind the semantics of predicates
My goal is to build semantic representation of Russian sentences, i.e. to extract verb predicates and fill in the actant words. The tool I have is some kind of a shallow syntactic parser which works ...
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Is there some intrinsic relationship between the nominative plural and genitive singular?
In Latin the similarity between the nominative plural and genitive singular is most striking:
First: porta (Nom/Sing) and portae (Nom/Pl), portae (Gen/Sing) and portarum (Gen/Pl)
Second: servus (Nom/...
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Resources on 'Siberian language'
Siberian language (Ru) is an artificial language project which used to have its wiki pages. Unfortunately, due to the bizzare political processes in modern Russia, the pages were deleted and the ...
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What are other 'tacit perfectiveness/imperfectiveness event markers' in Russian? [closed]
I have discovered that making a communicative wishing constructions (like in 'have a good trip' or 'merry Christmas') in Russian, they use different structures depending on perfectiveness/...
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Two words for "now" in Russian [closed]
There are two russian words for "now": сейчас and теперь.
How does the use of these words differ?
Is one of them more formal than the other?
Which one is the most commonly used word?
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Are apostrophes and hyphens punctuation marks?
The question is: Would you classify apostrophes and hyphens as punctuation marks? Now, Webster and a lot of other sources define them as punctuation marks. I know for sure that in Russian linguistics ...
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Why does English sound so cold to a Slavic speaker? [closed]
When you compare English with e.g .Russian or some other Slavic language, English sounds very cold and not warming at all. Could it be explained scientifically?
Compare this in Russian:
http://youtu....
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Do I need to learn Esperanto? [closed]
I am native Armenian speaker. I know Russian from childhood. Recent years English became my second language and I am using it in everywhere except interaction with friends. Now I want to learn Italian....
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Are the Russian уж (a kind of snake) and узко (narrow) related?
According to Mallory we have the following PIE words:
a̯enghu̯is snake (> уж)
a̯enĝhus narrow (> узко)
a̯enĝhnos fear, constriction (> ужас)
This hints at that the words could be related if ...
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Are the Russian "фрязин" and Thai "ฝรั่ง" (farang) related?
In old Russian the word фрязин ([fr'az'in], apostrophe means a soft consonant) was used to denote a westerner. Although the word is not used any more, it is kept as part of some place names, such as a ...
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What is the origin of the Latin suffix -alis/-alia?
What is the origin of the Latin suffix -alis/-alia? Can it be an Etruscan borrowing? Is Russian adjectival suffix -аль- a borrowing from Latin?
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Why IPA does not indicate "soft" consonants in English?
I am a native Russian speaker. Sometimes I encounter English speakers who are trying to learn Russian and wonder how to pronounce "soft" consonants.
At the same time while learning English I noticed ...
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Do Spanish speakers prefer certain words for certain aspects, like in Russian?
In an effort to clearly delineate durar and tardar to my Spanish students, I have been searching for some usage notes and I was not satisfied with anything I found.
Instead, I was wondering if these ...
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What are the main accents of modern Russian among native speakers?
Before I had heard any spoken, Russian was one of my favorite languages. I used to have fun just reading Russian dictionaries, and I thought I'd soon learn to speak it. But when I tried to find some ...
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