🌝Прекрасного дня всем!

• Рассвет (рассветы)
  [ra-svet (ra-sve-ty)]
  Dawn(s)

• Восход солнца (восходы солнца)
  [vas-khot son-tsa (vas-kho-dy son-tsa)]
  Sunrise(s)

• Утренняя заря (утренние зори)
  [ut-ri-nya-ya za-rya (ut-ri-niye zo-ri)]
   Morning dawn(s), sun-up
 
🔻WHEN? КОГДА?
Preposition НА requires a noun in prepositional case after it:

• На рассвете
  [na ra-sve-te]
  At dawn

• НА восходе солнца
  [na vas-kho-de so-ntsa]
  At sunrise

• НА утренней заре
  [na ut-ri-ney za-re]
  At morning dawn

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👋 С субботой, товарищи!

🔻 Prefix ПРИ- means 'incompleteness of an action', in this case the action was not completed.

• Прилечь (perfective)
  [pri-lech]
  To lie down (not to sleep for a long time (e.g. night), just for a while

Also:
• Прикорнуть (perfective, colloquial)
  [pri-kar-nut']
  To take a nap, to fall asleep (usually  for a short period of time) leaning against something

• Кисуля прикорнула на солнышке.
[ki-su-lya pri-kar-nu-la na sol-nysh-ke]
🇬🇧 The kittie took a nap in the sun.

🎧🗣👇 Listen and practice.

⏺Check the conjugations of both verbs 👇do the exercises there and make up your own sentences to memorize them better.

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👋Всем салют!

• Победить (perfective) (+accusative)
  [pa-be-dit']
  To defeat/beat someone

🔻I'm sure you know that this verb has NO Future form for pronoun 'Я'.

You may hear:
❌ Я победю
❌ Я побеж(д)у
❌ Я буду победить
but they must be definitely used as a joke!

🔻If you still want to announce your future victory over someone, you could say:

✅ Я одержу победу над тобой (instrumental)
[ya a-der-zhy pa-be-dy nat ta-boy]
I will defeat you

✅ Я смогу победить тебя (accusative)
[ya sma-gu pa-be-dit' ti-bya]
I will be able to defeat you

✅ Я сумею победить тебя (accusative)
[ya su-me-yu pa-be-dit' ti-bya]
I will manage to defeat you

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🌝Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Подвинуться (perfective, reflexive: the action is being performed by the subject upon oneself)
  [pad-vi-nu-tsa]
  To move aside/over

🔻This verb comes from:

• Подвинуть (perfective)
  [pad-vi-nut']
  To move (something from one
   place to another)

🔻Prefix ПО- has several meanings (as almost everything in our great and mighty Russian 😅) but here it means to perform a small action, to move something but a bit.

💢 In spoken Russian you can also come across the following collocation:

• Извини - подвинься!
  [iz-vi-ni pad-vin'-sya]
  SLT: Sorry - move over!
  Oh, no, that won't do!
  Thanks but no thanks!

🔻It is used to express refusal, disagreement or objection:

• Ты хотел, чтобы я уступил тебе место? Ну, извини-подвинься! Я тоже устал.
🇬🇧 Did you want me to give you my seat? Well, no way! I'm tired too.

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🌝Доброе всем!

🔻A collective numeral, formed from the cardinal 'два' (two), which is translated into English as 'both':

• Оба (masc.)
  [o-ba]
  'Both' in reference to masculine or neuter nouns.

• Обе (femin.)
  [o-bye]
  'Both' in reference to feminine nouns.

Synonym:

• Двое (for masc. neut.)
[dvo-ye]
Two (men)

• Две (for femin.)
[dve]
Two (women)

• В такие холодные ночи оба котёнка грелись у огня.
[f ta-ki-ye kha-lod-ny-ye no-chi o-ba ka-tyon-ka gre-lis' u ag-nya]
🇬🇧 On such cold nights both kittens warmed themselves by the fire.

Check the declension of ОБА/ОБЕ over there👇.

💢 You can also come across an interjection:

• Оба-на!
  [o-ba-na]
  Wow!

🔻It expresses joyful surprise, bewilderment, delight.

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🌝Привет всем!

• МорожеНое (substantivized neut.noun, one 'Н')
  [ma-ro-zhy-na-ye]
  STL: Frozen
  Ice cream

🔻 Plural form 'мороженое' is usually used with a numeral:

• Два ванильных мороженых
[dva va-nil'-nykh ma-ro-zhy-nykh]
Two vanilla ice creams

But not:
❌ Ванильные мороженые

🔻You cal also say:
• Две порции мороженого
[dve por-tsy-i ma-ro-zhy-na-va]
🇬🇧 2 portions/reservings of ice cream

• Два стаканчика мороженого
[dva sta-kan'-chi-ka ma-ro-zhy-na-va]
🇬🇧 2 ice cream cups

• Два брикета мороженого
[dva bri-ke-ta ma-ro-zhy-na-va]
🇬🇧 2 ice-cream bars

🎧🗣👇 Вкусного, как мороженое, понедельника всем!

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🌝Всем привет!

🔻Russian adverbs 'сюда' and 'отсюда' are used to indicate location and direction in Russian.

1. Сюда
    [syu-da]
    To here / towards this place

• Иди сюда!
   [i-di syu-da]
  Come here!

🔻'Сюда' is used with verbs of motion, such as 'идти' (to go, come).

2. Отсюда
     [at-syu-da] 
     From here, away from here

• Я ухожу отсюда!
   [ya u-kha-zhu at-syu-da]
   I am leaving from here!

🔻'Отсюда' is used with verbs of motion, such as 'уходить' (to leave).

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• Обезвредить (+ accusative))
  [a-biz-vre-dit']
  To neutralize

🔻Prefix ОБЕЗ- (ОБЕС-) + suffix -И- have the meaning 'to deprive of what is called a motivating noun':

ОБЕЗ + вред + и + ть (to deprive of the harm (вред))

• Если вы устали от жены (подруги), обезвредьте её таким образом. Не благодарите!
[Yes-li vy us-tali аt zhe-ny (pаd-ru-gi), а-biz-vred'-te yi-yo ta-kim ob-ra-zam. ni bla-ga-da-ri-te]
🇬🇧 If you are tired of your wife (girlfriend), neutralize her in this way. Don't thank me!

❓Can you think of other words with ОБЕЗ- /ОБЕС- prefix?

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