The preposition “для” indicates the beneficiary of something and is used with the genitive case. It means “for” or “to” in terms of purpose or intended recipient. To clarify, let’s examine some examples. In the sentence “Подарок для моей мамы” (A gift for my mom), “для” is used to convey that the gift is intended…

Prefix по- is commonly used in Russian. You can see it in nouns or adverbs, but the question of how we use this prefix with verbs is what interests learners the most. We’ll talk a lot about verbs but let’s start with example of words that have that по- prefix. Adverbs: поначалу (at first, firstly,…

Adverb of time is meant to denote when exactly an action is taking place: today, now, always, daily etc. In this post I’ll make a list of adverbs of time in Russian with example sentences. I hope this will help you understand how to use them. сегодня [seevodnya] – today Какое сегодня число? – What’s…

We rarely use the verb нравиться in “noun + verb” constructions. In other words, there is no literal “I like” in Russian. When we say “я нравлюсь”, “ты нравишься”, “он нравится”, “они нравятся”, it means “somebody likes me/you/him/they”. For example: Я ему нравлюсь. – He likes me. Ты мне нравишься. – I like you. Я…

We use negative pronouns and adverbs to talk about nonexistent or absent things and living beings. There are also negative adverbs If you want to find out how we say ‘nothing’, ‘nobody’, etc. in Russian, you’re in the right place. To form negative pronouns and adverbs you need to know interrogative pronouns/adverbs. They are the…