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If a word or a part of it imitates a sound, this word is called 'an onomatopoeia'. The formation or use of such words is called 'onomatopoeia'. That's why 'мяу', 'мяукать', 'гав', 'гавкать' and all the other Russian words imitating sounds are called onomatopoeias. In English the situation is the sam...

Hi Bagus, it is good for you that you've started learning Russian! As for your phrase 'Я индонезийский', the situation is the following. One may say 'Я русский' and this phrase would mean 'I am Russian'. So the word 'русский' may be used as a noun and as an adjective. However the adjectives of all t...

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Your sentence can be translated like 'Всегда есть надежда', 'Надежда есть всегда'. If you want to express the same idea more emphatically, you may translate the sentence like 'Надежда умирает последней'. However this translation is not exact and it means 'Hope is the last thing to die'. Hope it will...

If the first digits after the comma are zeros, the number is to be pronounced like 'the integer part + (запятая) ноль ноль .... + non-zero digits one after another'. 1,01 один ноль один 1,005 один ноль ноль пять 5,00084 пять запятая ноль ноль ноль восемь четыре If there are three or more the same di...

The pronunciation of decimals is sophisticated in Russian. If the integer part of a number is 0 and there are one, two or three digits after the comma, the number should be pronounced like ноль + the integer consisting of the digits after the comma. 0,1 ноль один 0,7 ноль семь 0,84 ноль восемьдесят ...

There is only a very little number (I suppose less than half a percent) of words sounding similar in Russian and English. For example, Hey! - Эй! Wow! - Вау! three - три a video - видео a challenger [a tennis tourment] - чэлленджер freelance - фриланс a hub [about computers] - хаб a disc - диск a ca...

All examples of the usage of a word "побывать", which I have come up with, testify about the following: "Я побываю... " means "I will have been...", "Я побывал..." means either "I have been..." or "I had been...". Examples: До конца года я ...

I live in Kharkov, Ukraine. I am 20, my native language is Russian and I would be glad to help people in learning this wonderful language!