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

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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]

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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
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🧡A spring evening on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg

Video: andrei_mikhailov

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#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

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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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• Самостоятельный
  [sa-mas-ta-ya-til'-nyj]

🔻This Russian adjective has a few nuanced meanings, all revolving around the idea of independence or self-reliance:

🔢 Independent. It refers to someone or something that is capable of acting or existing without external support or control:

• Cамостоятельный кот
  An independent cat

🔢 Self-sufficient. This emphasizes the ability to provide for one's own needs:

• Cамостоятельная жизнь
A self-sufficient life

🔢 Autonomous. This highlights the aspect of self-governance or self-determination:

• Cамостоятельная организация 
  Аn autonomous organization/firm

🔢 Original. It can mean original or independent in thought or creation:

• Cамостоятельная работа
  A piece of work created independently, without copying

🎧🗣👇

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#useful_vocabulary

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On April 28, 1945, units of the 79th Army Corps of the 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, launched an assault on the Reichstag.

Dates: Assault began April 28th, 1945; building captured May 2nd, 1945.
Soviet Assault Force: Primarily 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front; tens of thousands of soldiers involved.
German Defenders:  LSSAH, Volkssturm, Hitler Youth, and other fragmented units.
Casualties: Heavy on both sides; precise figures remain debated.

#brief_and_interesting
#memorible_date
#RussianHistory

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