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Hi catfreak88, good try at writing in Russian! Your phrase after correction appears as follows: Я знаю, что слова "знамя" и "племя" -- среднего рода. Можем ли мы сказать "новое знамя" или "новая знамя"? The answer is the following: indeed, "знамя" an...

Hi ReneR, the signature is as follows: №266 Бэла. соч. М.Ю. Лермонтова. С. Палех. А.С. Баранов. 1938. "Бэла" is a short novel by the famous Russian writer Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов). The contraction "соч." possibly means "сочинение" (essay), ...

Hi lilith, phrases like 'Сегодня тепло' or 'Сегодня теплый день' usually mean that the temperature today is significantly (at least 3-5 degrees) higher than it used to be lately but is less than 25-30 degrees. If it's higher than 25-30, we consider the weather to be hot. That is why if yesterday the...

Hi guys, the word 'сейчас' means 'at the present time'. As for 'теперь', it seems that this word has initially meant 'now, after the previous stage' (not necessarily at the present time), but then it has acquired the additional meaning 'at the present time'. For example, speaking about the past, we ...

There is no word 'спутешествовал' in the Russian language. I'd translate the sentence as Я (пропутешествовал/совершил путешествие) назад во времени, чтобы сказать тебе кое-что важное. The two variants of my translation mean the same. However, on the one hand the structure of 'пропутешествовал' is cl...

Besides, 'задача' can be translated as a task when you mean a complicated and/or responsible task: Перед главой Национального банка была поставлена задача повысить курс гривны. (The Head of the National Bank has been given a task to increase the hryvnia exchange rate.) Их задачей является следить за...

Speaking about a person who spends something (money, fuel, water, other resources) economically, one should say 'экономный' and not 'экономичный'. I am with dimiter on this one. Examples: экономный фермер (an economical farmer), экономный руководитель экспедиции (the economical leader of an expediti...

'A female friend of another female or of a male' is 'подруга'. The word 'подруга' indicates only friendship and no romantic relationship, just like the English word 'friend'. So one may say 'подруга Маши', one may say 'подруга Антона'. Once in a while people say 'друг' instead of 'подруга', like ale...

Yes, I think that after a specific number 'людей' is incorrect and only 'человек' (or 'человека') is correct:

'6 человек' (not '6 людей').

Yeah, 'шоколад' is pronounced as 'шекалад' while there is a rule saying that an unstressed 'о' should be pronounced as 'а'. I've checked this rule out for about twenty words, and it works for each of the words. So it seems that 'шоколад' is just an exception.