👋Good spring morning to you all!

🔢 Трёхцветный (masc.adj.)
[tryokh-tsvet-nyj]
Tricolour, three-coloured, Calico

🔻It's built from three parts:
Трёх (Gen. from три) + цвет + the adjectival suffix -ный

🔢 Двухцветный (masc.adj.)
   [dvukh-tsvet-nyj] 
   Two-coloured, bicolour

🔻Двух (Gen. два) + цвет + -ный

🔢 Одноцветный (masc.adj.)
     [ad-na-tsvet-nyj] 
     One-coloured, unicolour

🔻Одно (один) + цвет + -ный

📎 You'll see far more tricolour female cats than males. And in many cultures, including Russia, a tricolour cat is believed to bring good luck to the home. 

❓А Ваш котик одноцветный, двухцветный или трёхцветный?

▶️Цвета (Revision)

#useful_vocabulary

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In the updated IQ ranking of different countries' populations, Russia continues to confidently hold the 6th place. Belarus has risen to 16th place.

▶️Ordinal numerals

#news
#numerals

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Talking about IQ...

The USSR created a table to test your observation skills.  It's called "The Engaging Table." Find the numbers 1 through 90 in sequence on this table.

🔻If you find them in 5-10 minutes, you have exceptional observation skills.
10-15 minutes – good.
15-20 minutes – average.
20-25 minutes – satisfactory.

😉The bravest among you can try this in Russian!  Hint: 
▶️Cardinal numerals 1-20
▶️Cardinal numerals 20-100

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#USSR
#numerals

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Ну что, ещё разок хардкору, товарищи?

🔻The SECOND conjugation in Russian includes verbs ending (in infinitive) in -ИТЬ

❗Though the following verbs do NOT end in -ИТЬ, they are exceptions and all belong to the SECOND conjugation:

• Гнать (to drive, to chase)
• Держать (to hold, kееp)
• Дышать (to breathe)
• Слышать (to hear)
• Обидеть (to offend, hurt)
• Видеть (to see)
• Зависеть (to depend)
• Терпеть (to endure, to tolerate)
• Вертеть (to twist, to turn)
• Ненавидеть (to hate)
• Смотреть (to watch)

🔻Present Tense endings (Indicative Mood) (the endings are applied to the verb stem):

1. I ... -У/-Ю
2. You (singular) ... -ИШЬ
3. (S)he/it ... -ИТ
4. We ... -ИМ
5. You (plural/polite) ... -ИТЕ
6. They ... -АТ/-ЯТ 

🔻Let's take the SECOND conjugation verb Звонить (to phone) (see the video):

1. Я звон+Ю
2. Ты звон+ИШЬ
3. Он/она/оно звон+ИТ
4. Мы звон+ИМ
5. Вы звон+ИТЕ
6. Они звон+ЯТ

🤗 Practice makes рerfect! Try conjugating various verbs, creating sentences, and stay strong, comrades!

▶️The FIRST conjugation
▶️Conversation on the phone

#grammar_tips
#verbconjugation

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😎How to say 'Call me!' in Russian:

🔢 Позвоните мне, пожалуйста!
[pa-zva-ni-te mnye pa-zha-lu-sta]

🔢 Позвони мне, пожалуйста!
[pa-zva-ni mnye pa-zha-lu-sta]

🔢 Набери меня!
[na-bi-ri mi-nya]

🔢 Звякни мне!
[zvyak-ni mnye]

Please like this post ❤️ It's not hard for you, but it means a lot to me :)

💓 And if you're tired of Duolingo and would like to book a lesson with me, please write to @RCR_feedback_bot for details.

#spoken_Russian
#useful_vocabulary
#video_from_Natalie

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😀 In a few years time the stress will probably be on the first syllable: (он/она) звОнит but not as the standard variant: звонИт.

🔻At least, that's what the Russian Academy of Sciences (РАН) believes. 

🔻According to experts, this is a natural evolution of the Russian language: in all verbs ending in -ИТЬ (3rd person, sg, 2nd conjugation), the stress has been gradually shifting to the first syllable over the last 100 years: the verb вклЮчит (he switches on) used to be pronounced with the stress on the second syllable: включИт.

📎 The comments section of this news story exploded with outrage: people are ridiculing the innovation, speculating which official couldn't remember the correct version and decided to change the rule itself.

#grammar_tips
#news

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🧡A spring evening on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg

Video: andrei_mikhailov

#around_Russia
#StPetersburg

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A NON-linguistic post:

🌝Просто хорошего настроения всем!

#just_cats

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Ranking cat sounds.
Which one's the cutest from your point of view?

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• Крипота (femin.noun)
  [kri-pa-ta]

🔻This is a scary, frightening, and horrible thing, used in modern Russian slang. 

🔻The noun comes from the English adjective creepy.

🔻Don't confuse it with the feminine noun крипта [kri-pta], which is a short slang variant for криптовалюта [krip-ta-va-lu-ta] cryptocurrency.

#spoken_Russian
#tricky_words

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• Вали отсюда! (⚠️rude!)
[va-li at-syu-da]
Go away from here!

▶️Сваливать/свалить
▶️Отсюда

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• Походочка (femin.noun)
[pa-kho-dach-ka]
A manner of walking

🔻This noun is a diminutive form from походка.

▶️Походка/поступь

#useful_vocabulary

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This is what professional bribery of a judge at a cat show looks like!

• Подкуп
[pot-kup]
Bribery

🔻It comes from the verb (imperf.) подкупать [pаt-ku-pat'] to bribe.

#useful_vocabulary
#just_cats

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- Вот видео, как я провожу воскресенье.
- Это же фото.
- Это видео.
- Here's a video of how I'm spending my Sunday.
- That's a photo.
- It's a video.

Товарищи, всем прекрасного воскресенья!

#just_a_joke
#just_cats

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Воскресенье же, Наташа! Не работаем в эти дни, а гладим меня!
It's Sunday, Natasha! We don't work on these days, but we're petting me!

• Гладить (кого/что? Accus. кота)
[gla-dit' ka-ta]
To stroke/pet a cat

#just_cats
#useful_vocabulary

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A retro rally commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War has started in Moscow.

🔻Owners of Soviet and foreign cars from the 1950s-1980s gathered at Poklonnaya Hill, from where the motorcade began. 

🔻The route includes memorable sites in the capital, including those where anti-aircraft installations were located.

Source: @rt_russian

#news

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A NON-linguistic post:

🐱С понедельником, товарищи!

#just_cats

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