Expressing quantity in Russian involves using numerals, counting words, and grammatical forms that agree with the noun they modify. Words of quantity tell us how many or how much of something there is. But if you are learning Russian, there are some good news for you: we actually don’t use different words for countable and…

There are hundreds of adverbs in Russian. We can’t cover them all in one post, but there are some different groups of adverbs that we can learn. This time it’s adverbs of place and movement. Let’s find out what they look like. Adverbs of Place Adverbs of place answer the question “Где?” (Where is?). They…

We don’t have perfect tense in Russian, so we show that an action is completed through the help of the verb aspect: imperfective and perfective. I created a big list of Russian verbs that have perfective forms. If you want to see it, just continue scrolling. But we have to learn the rules first. Imperfective…

The nominative case (именительный падеж) is the easiest one in the Russian language. It expresses an independent position of a noun in a sentence. It answers the questions Кто? or Что? (Who?/What?). In Russian dictionaries, all nouns are given in the nominative case. It’s actually the basic form of a noun. But when do we…