The Russian Lesson of the Day includes a series of quizzes based on the words and examples from our series Russian Word of the Day, as well as some grammar exercises (noun declension, verb aspects and conjugation). The lesson is designed to help you memorize the vocabulary you learn with us and practice your audio, writing and translation skills.
The content of the lesson is updated daily (from Monday to Friday). The words and sentences that appear in the lesson (parts 1 and 2) are picked by the method of spaced repetition which has proven its efficiency when it comes to learning new vocabulary and is used by many existing services. So if you come here every day, you can be sure that you repeat every word and practice every sentence a few times at different days.
Visit this page regularly to get the maximum effect of these exercises and make sure that you don't forget the words you learn with us and that your Russian vocabulary constantly grows. 🙂
Part 1: repeat the words
YOUR TASK:
Pick the correct translation of the word you see or hear.
The exercise includes 15 questions.
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internet
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armchair, easy chair; stall
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soon
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to eavesdrop, to overhear imperfective
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to say, to tell perfective
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passport
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sullen, morose, gloomy, sulky, uncheerful, moody
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not far, near, close by
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window
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to happen
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good, solid, sound, good-quality
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used to desribe somebody eating greedily
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post office, post
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wealth, riches; richness, resplendence, gorgeousness
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to pity, to be sorry; to regret imperfective
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vexation, disappointment
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evident, obvious, apparent, clear, explicit
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wallet, purse
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coniferous
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to watch, to observe, to study; to keep an eye on, to look after, to supervise
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action, activity, industry, enterprise
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noisy, loud
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snowfall
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lucky
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заняться
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купаться
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целеустремлённый
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ресторан
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свидание
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чипсы
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relatively
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to despond, to lose courage / heart
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peephole
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volume, capacity
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to last imperfective
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quietly, softly, gently, silently; slowly
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сut into pieces for sewing something; specially adapt
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to be indignant, to be shocked, to be outraged
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become russified / russianized
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to bring
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to clink (glasses)
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sweater, pullover, slip-over
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to take a bath, to have a swim perfective
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to confuse, to bewilder, to obfuscate, to mislead, to baffle, to muddle, to wrack one’s brains
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to buy, to purchase perfective
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to go down, to come down; to descend imperfective
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past
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anniversary
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to swim, to float, to sail
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warmth; it's warm; warmly, cordially
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to value, to estimate, to appreciate
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moon
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fine, ok, all right
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unawares, unexpectedly, by surprise
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to knit, to crochet imperfective
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unmatched, incomparable, inimitable
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brawl, fight, scuffle
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by chance, accidentaly
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on the alert, on one's guard, on the look-out
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shy, timid, bashful, diffident
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to develop, to design, to engineer, to elaborate, to exploit, to work up, to process
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square, area
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teacher
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pickles, conserved vegetables
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father
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family, kin, clan; origin, generation; kind, sort, type; way; gender
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Part 2: translate sentences
YOUR TASK:
Read or listen to the sentence and try to translate it. Then check the correct answer. If you guessed rather correctly, click "Correct", if you could not answer or got it totally wrong, click "Wrong".
The best way to get the maximum of this exercise is to take a pen and a paper and to write down every translated by you sentence before you check the correct answer.
Keep in mind that usually, there are a few ways to translate a sentence. So don't be too hard on yourself trying to totally match the translation we give. Choose "Correct" if your answer is close to ours.
The exercise includes 12 questions.
Five squared is twenty-five.
Пять в квадра́те бу́дет два́дцать пять.
He wanted to help people.
Он хоте́л приноси́ть по́льзу лю́дям.
I don't think there will be any benefit from this.
Не ду́маю, что от э́того бу́дет кака́я-то по́льза.
How do I find the area of a square?
Как найти́ пло́щадь квадра́та?
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YOUR TASK:
Choose the correct form of the noun in brackets.
The exercise includes 10 questions.
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людях
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человеку
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людей
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человека
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людям
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люди
How he ended up in this position with his meager mental capacity was a mystery.
How he ended up in this position with his meager mental capacity was a mystery.
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способностях
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способность
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способностями
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способностям
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способностью
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способностей
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жара
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жару
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жаре
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жары
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жарой
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улице
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улицей
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улицу
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улиц
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улицам
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улицах
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штраф
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штрафам
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штрафа
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штрафов
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штрафу
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штрафы
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учебнику
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учебников
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учебника
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учебник
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учебниках
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учебником
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рукой
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руками
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руках
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руку
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руки
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рука
A person who is successful in one area is not necessarily good at all others.
A person who is successful in one area is not necessarily good at all others.
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успехом
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успеха
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успехам
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успехах
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успех
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успехе
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температурами
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температурах
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температура
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температур
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температурой
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температуре
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пищу
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пище
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пищам
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пищи
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пищей
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пища
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Part 4: practice verb conjugation
YOUR TASK:
Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets.
The exercise includes 10 questions.
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преодолевая
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преодолевают
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преодолевали
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будем преодолевать
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преодолевала
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будете преодолевать
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расплатитесь
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расплатись
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расплатится
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расплатилось
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расплачусь
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расплатился
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прощаю
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прощайте
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прощать
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прощала
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прощаешь
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прощающий
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проспать
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проспали
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проспал
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проспавший
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проспишь
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проспала
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улыбались
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улыбаемся
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улыбаться
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улыбаюсь
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улыбалось
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улыбалась
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просила
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прошу
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просить
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просив / просивши
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просил
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просящий
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будем спать
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спать
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спавший
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будет спать
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спят
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спящий
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найти
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нашло
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найдите
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найдя
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найдёшь
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найдёте
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печатают
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будут печатать
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печатает
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печатанный
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будет печатать
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печатал
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пройдём
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пройду
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пройденный
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прошли
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пройди
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прошло
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Part 5: practice verb aspects
YOUR TASK:
Fill in the gaps choosing the correct aspect of the verb.
The exercise includes 10 questions.
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забывала Imperfective
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забыла Perfective
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зевать Imperfective
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зевнуть Perfective
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увеличивать Imperfective
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увеличить Perfective
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ссориться Imperfective
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поссориться Perfective
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смущался Imperfective
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смутился Perfective
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договаривались Imperfective
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договорились Perfective
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называть Imperfective
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назвать Perfective
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оказывалась Imperfective
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оказалась Perfective
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прятался Imperfective
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спрятался Perfective
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дарили Imperfective
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подарили Perfective
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Part 6: random verb conjugation
You might know our standard quiz that follows every verb conjugation table on our site. Here, we offer you to take the same quiz with a random verb.
This time, the verb is прихорашиваться (to smarten oneself up, to spruce up).
You can find the conjugation of this verb and examples of its use here: прихорашиваться - conjugation.
YOUR TASK:
Choose the correct form of the verb according to the description given.
The exercise includes 22 questions.
- прихора́шиваетесь
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шивайтесь
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваясь
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шивающийся
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шивался
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваемся
- прихора́шивавшись
- бу́дешь прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивается
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шиваетесь
- бу́дешь прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивалась
- бу́дет прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шивается
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шиваясь
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шивавшись
- прихора́шиваются
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивался
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шивающийся
- прихора́шивавшийся
- бу́ду прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваемся
- бу́дешь прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивается
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шивавшись
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шиваются
- бу́дешь прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шивается
- прихора́шивайся
- бу́дут прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивался
- прихора́шиваясь
- бу́дет прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шиваетесь
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шиваемся
- бу́дут прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шивавшийся
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шиваются
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шиваетесь
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шивался
- прихора́шивавшийся
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шиваешься
- бу́дешь прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваясь
- прихора́шивавшийся
- бу́дут прихора́шиваться
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваются
- прихора́шиваетесь
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивалось
- прихора́шивайтесь
- бу́дут прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивающийся
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шиваемся
- прихора́шивалось
- бу́дет прихора́шиваться
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- бу́дем прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваясь
- прихора́шиваюсь
- прихора́шиваемся
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шиваются
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шиваетесь
- прихора́шивалось
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шивалась
- прихора́шивающийся
- прихора́шивавшись
- прихора́шиваясь
- прихора́шивайся
- бу́ду прихора́шиваться
- бу́дут прихора́шиваться
- бу́дет прихора́шиваться
- бу́дете прихора́шиваться
- бу́ду прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивайтесь
- прихора́шиваются
- прихора́шиваешься
- прихора́шиваемся
- прихора́шивались
- прихора́шивайся
- прихора́шиваешься
- бу́ду прихора́шиваться
- прихора́шивающийся
- прихора́шивавшийся
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Part 7: typing exercise
You asked, we listened! As suggested by our readers, we have added a typing exercise.
YOUR TASK:
To make the most of this exercise, first try to translate the word from English (to help you with that, we added the number of characters for every word). If you can't simply translate the word, listen to the audio. Type your guess into the field.
Click "Check answer" to reveal the correct answer and to be able to move to the next question.
The exercise includes 10 questions.
End of part 7
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Part 8: practice Russian pronouns
This quiz is designed to help you practice Russian pronouns in different cases. The examples selected for this quiz are rather simple, so it should suit well for upper-beginners and intermediate level.
YOUR TASK: select the correct option.
The exercise includes 10 questions.
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твоему
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твоём
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твой
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твоя
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твоего
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твоим
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неё
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ней
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нею
-
ей
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ею
-
её
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этого
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ту
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эта
-
то
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тот
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этими
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нашем
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наша
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наш
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нашими
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наши
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наших
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нашему
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наши
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нашей
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нашими
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нашу
-
нашим
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этому
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этим
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эту
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эти
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теми
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тем
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вашей
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наша
-
его
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моему
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моё
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твоими
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моих
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моими
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моё
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моей
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моём
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мои
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ими
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нам
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меня
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мне
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вам
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мной
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её
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неё
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нею
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ней
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ею
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ей
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Reference
The words practiced in this lesson:
- Паспорт
- Случаться
- По-русски
- Кошелёк
- Везучий
- Целеустремлённый
- Тихо
- Возмущаться
- Запропаститься
- Искупаться
- Тепло
- Хорошего дня
- Бесподобный
- Разрабатывать
- Станция
The sentences used in this lesson were given as examples for the following words:
Атиргули says:
Когда продолжение?
Learn Russian Words says:
Добрый день, Атиргули,
Урок дня обновляется ежедневно по рабочим дням. Приходите сюда в понедельник, когда будет опубликовано новое слово дня, и упражнения обновятся новыми словами.
marie ventura says:
sorry another time,but audio is often out of order
Learn Russian Words says:
Hello Marie,
We are aware of this problem and created a little note that explains it.
As much as we would really like to fix it, we simply don’t know how. We have asked the programming community on specialized forums to help us, but so far got 0 replies. So for now it is what it is.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope to find a solution sooner or later.
André says:
Hello
I ve made one mistake because I couldn’t hear the sound
Have a nice day !!!
Learn Russian Words says:
Hello André,
Well done! Sorry about the bug with the sound. Sooner of later, we will find a way to fix it.
Have a nice day you too! 🙂
Paul D'hooge says:
You developed a great site! Congratulations, I love it.
I have only one question (at this time :-)):
Concerning the exercise on the verb aspects, it would be very informative for me should there be an explanation why in each particular example the imperfective or perfective verb is used. (as you do already for the cases exercise). This can be very short, i.e. : one time use, repetitive action, finished action etc… To me it is not always clear why one or the other is used in some of the examples.
Learn Russian Words says:
Hello Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. We are planning to introduce some more explanations to all the grammar quizzes, so this goes well along with that. Written down. 🙂
Andi says:
I wold just like to say these lessons are geared up for people who are intermediate to advanced.
They have been developed by people who were taught a grammatical way. There is no room for beginners in these daily lessons. Many of the sentences used are just totally abstract of no use in daily life.
I believe it needs a complete over haul and total relook from out of the box. Look at how children learn – they are not given grammer grammer grammer
For a beginner who has learnt many words, for survival Russian the next step is simple conversation.
I would suggest you make up simple conversations examples,
Introduction in the present tense,
Something that happed now, yesterday and in the future – a walk in the park – so one can see the difference. same with all the subjects below.
Subjects encapsulated should be everyday things –
How are you? Welcome to my home/ going out to the cinema
Shopping
Weather
Games/sports
Body/medical/Dentist/doctor
Directions
Holidays
Driving/riding a bike/ a horse
Watching TV/listening to the radio…
Cookiing
Bathroom – toilet/bath/shower etc..
Going to bed.
Concerts/Night clubs/Restaurants….
The subjects are endless but relevant to ones live
Not
Хватит ссориться из-за пустяков!
Enough quarreling over small things!
Хватит … из-за пустяков!
Мы вчера реально оплошали.
We really blundered yesterday.
Мы вчера реально [оплошать].
to pay, to pay off, to settle accounts
Я взяла две [штука] – одну на сейчас и одну про запас.
I took two pieces – one for now and one in store.
I am never going to use any of those phases sorry. I understand it is to get the correct noun or verb or tense thereof of the context would be helpful if it was relevant to modern life and living and it’s situation.
I shall still use the flashcards to increase my vocab, but I do not see anything else here that gets me from words to sentences and therefore conversation. Maybe I am missing something.
Maybe an idea to consider – is provide a list of Russian words with translation then form a simple conversation between two people.
Then introduce another set of words and introduce them to the same conversation there by increasing someones knowledge. I would suggest due to grammatical complexities of Russian, you provide conversations in Past/Present and Future tense and maybe explain in the introduction plurals of words or in the list of Russian words with there English translation.
In the introduction you could provide verb conjugation etc.. and other varients.
These are my thoughts.
Learn Russian Words says:
Hello Andi,
Thank you for your thoughts, you mentioned a few interesting points and we’ll use them in the future lessons.
You might find something closer to what you are talking about on another site of ours – https://learnrussianstepbystep.com/. This site is designed particularly for beginners and has both grammar and vocabulary lessons.
Learn Russian Words is the Russian Word of the Day first and foremost. The lesson of the day is created because it would be a shame for us not to try to make the most of all these words and examples we have collected, and, more importantly, because many people find it beneficial for their practice.
We do invite beginners to try themselves with the exercises, but if it’s too difficult and just demotivates, then no point. However, there is only a short period of time when you are a beginner, you should try again when you feel like having something more challengable. We suggest to subscribe to the newsletter, it includes a different set of exercises, and do only those that you can do. With time you will be able to do the most (if not all) of them. Also, the newsletter comes with a series of links to other lessons which you might want to check out that day to refresh your knowledge.
And if you have ideas on how we could improve on what we have, about any of the websites of ours (you can see them all here – https://learnrussian101.com/network/), they are always welcome as the ones you already mentioned.
What it highlighted, though, is the fact that we should probably communicate about the level of the questions in the quizzes. We’ll think about how to put it better.
Thank you
Steef Vooren says:
There is a mistake in Part 6 of todays lesson.
Learn Russian Words says:
Hi Steef,
The lesson exercises are shown randomly and we can not know what exactly you’ve seen. Can you please let us know what exactly the mistake is about? Thank you.
Alix says:
Hi, it’s not a question but a suggestion: in the translation exercises, it would be good to add an intermediate qualification between Correct and Wrong; something like “almost correct”, or “approx”, or “not wrong”, etc., that rescues the positive of what the student has been able to answer.
Learn Russian Words says:
Hi Alix,
Great suggestion, thanks. I’ll try to implement it as soon as I can. 🙂
Oğuzhan Benli says:
Please print the letter ë as is, NOT e
Learn Russian Words says:
Hi Oğuzhan,
Thanks for your comment.
We do use Ё most of the time, it’s just in some old words and examples we still have Е instead and did not have time to find and correct it.
Oğuzhan Benli says:
We cannot judge which aspect of the verb to use reading one sentence only. The meaning must be explained
Learn Russian Words says:
Hi Oğuzhan,
Thanks for your comment.
The translation of the sentence is given right there. From it, you can judge about the meaning and pick the correct aspect.