Making Sentences
In Russian, you can say a lot with few words. The language is compact, and many sentences are simple. “He is an engineer” is already short, but Russians cut it in half: “He engineer” – that’s all you need to say. The language requires few words but the right ones.
Word Order
Cats eat mice can also be expressed in Russian as mice eat cats. There’s a lot of freedom in word order. The price for that freedom is declensions and cases. They keep sentences simple but constantly change the words. кошки едят мышей or мышей едят кошки – the grammar tells you who is eating whom.
The example of cats and mice comes from the video below (from 1:33)
Word Order in Russian
More explanation from Russian grammar. Оля была в Москве, Была Оля в Москве, and В Москве была Оля: three ways to say the same thing (Olya was in Moscow).
Time for You to Make a Sentence in Russian Language
Also from Be Fluent in Russian: What’s the Correct Word Order in Russian? (2018, 4 m) and Making Sentences (2017, 8 m).
Make Simple Phrases with Russian Verbs
(Russian Comprehensive, 2019, 12 m)
More
- Russian Language (A1): Sentence Structure (Part 1) (Russian Language Online, 2020, 5 m) and Part 2 (2020, 4 m)
- Russian Sentence Structure (Real Russian Club, 2018, 34 m)
- Learn the Top 5 Sentence Patterns for Beginners in Russian (RussianPod101, 2017, 3 m)
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Language
Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. There - work and make, there you already have two. And try to make Russian out of that sentence if you if you don’t know работать or делать. So work, also on your vocabulary.
Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.
The sixth noun, in Russian предложный падеж, is for most students the first one they learn. The reason is simple: the sixth grammatical case itself is.
And then it became war. Or should we say began the special military operation. On
February 24 2022 Russian troops entered Ukraine. It was allowed
neither war nor invasion be called, but it was akin to both.
This often comes as a setback for students of Russian: of (almost) every Russian verb there are two. Which do mean approximately the same thing, but express very different things. So you need to know both, and of both learn the conjugations.
Making mistakes in Cyrillic is no big deal. Everyone does. But wrong Cyrillic, that’s the biggest mistake you can make. And the worst thing you can do with that noble Cyrillic can do.
