Past Passive Participles I

An introduction to past passive participles for intermediate students. You'll see these participles often in written Russian, and you'll hear them in formal situations like lectures too, so becoming comfortable with them will definitely help your comprehension! This is the first of several videos on the topic.

[@justauserru]

I speak Russian natively and I'd definitely recommend this channel to everyone who's willing to learn Russian. By the way, I'm wondering if the speaker is Russian because judging by the video he's sounding so natural to me.

[@part9952]

I think the speaker is a native

[@alanduncan4207]

Нет, он американец, Куртис Форд. Он профессор русского языка в университете в США. Но я согласен - его произношение отличное.

[@Makrania]

Он хорошо объясняет грамматику

[@kingofthenerds7925]

@@alanduncan4207 That's impressive! My goal would be to end up similar to him. Teaching Russian to Americans even though I'm an American citizen myself.

[@lescommercantesdindochine1954]

This channel opened a floodgate of advanced understanding for me.

[@TheMuzykant]

I have been trying to learn this for a while. Your videos helped me! Thank you so much!

[@dorafragkouli2321]

Отличная работа,как всегда.

[@dekost1]

These videos are amazing. Keep up the good work man!

[@kro1989]

askerlik arkadasinla mi konusuyon la yarram

[@lescommercantesdindochine1954]

Incredibly fine quality instructions and explanations. I watch these videos at 75% speed, as the cadence of the author is prompt due to the absence of any unnecessary fluff.

[@user-wu7ye1pf9j]

Fantastic, helpful tutorial. Thank you for your continuing effort

[@saram9430]

Thank you so much, I can't wait for the other videos!

[@onthesearch5]

I think it´s important to say that Past Passiv Participles are formed only from perfect verbs !

[@russiangrammar]

Yes, that's basically true; I hesitated to bring that up here because a few past passives formed from imperfectives can be found (Ушаков has 'Неоднократно деланные предложения' as an example from деланный), but you have a good point - they're rare enough that I normally tell students to use only perfectives in a past passive form.

[@user-wu7ye1pf9j]

If i understand correctly сделанной is a past passive with a prep ending of a fem noun. Вот девушка Сделанная из снега > ...о девушке сделанной из снега. Ожившей is a past active with a prep ending of a fem noun. Вот девушка ожившая > ...о девушке ожившей

[@russiangrammar]

Молодец! сделанной (past passive) and ожившей (past active) here are both in the prepositional after о, with the feminine adjective ending -ой/-ей to agree with the feminine девушка.

[@peanut5525]

Be aware that forming the past passive participle of this first form only works with verbs in their perfective aspect! I spent a lot of time scratching my head over this one.

[@russiangrammar]

Yes, this is a useful tip. I'd decided not to mention it specifically since you can find a few examples of forms like читанный, деланный in the Russian National Corpus. But past passives from perfectives (прочитанный, сделанный) are far more common. :)

[@ismailgundogdu4513]

good English, excellent explanations!!

[@MrGustavier]

hey, I know it's been three years, but there's a question to which I never found the answer (that last clause can be fun to translate! with a participle maybe?) : how do you do when there's a conflict of cases : for example, in the video, you use the example : "15 books written by people with a great sense of humor". so "people" is instrumental, as the subject,. "with" should turn the nominal group comming afterwards ("a great sense of humor") into instrumental too, but "sense OF humor" should put "humor" into genetive case, so there's a conflict, "humor" should be both instrumental AND genetive. I would really apreciate if you cuold take the time to explain, or point me towards the grammar rule that governs that issue amazong job with the videos a fan

[@russiangrammar]

Think of it this way: с is referring directly to чувство (which is why it has the instrumental form чувством); юмора (genitive) is just describing what kind of sense of they have: 'with a great sense' (of what?) 'of humor.' You can find examples like 'как с юмором ответить на бестактные вопросы' ('how to answer tactless questions with humor'), but that's a little different from 'with a sense of humor.' You'll see a similar pattern with the genitive in other expressions too, for example: 'Не понимаю эту точку (acc.) зрения (gen.)' = I don't understand this point of view.

[@MrGustavier]

@@russiangrammar hey thanks so much for the answer. I'm learning russian, and in the past, with english for example, I've had wonderfull result doing a simple thing (and I repeated this technique with italian and spanish) : I watch interesting, captivating video content (movies, series, etc) in the language I want to learn, with the subtitles of that same language, the goal is to allow my brain to link what I hear with what I read, and the idea is that since i'm captivated by the content, I stop every time I don't understand something, and look it up. eventually I remove the subtitles and I stop and repeat everytime I can't decipher what I hear ... you get the picture. The only problem with this technique is that I need to find the subtitles, that are EXACTLY what the audio says. the final step of this tecnique is to watch comedians, humorists, because the laughters after the punchline is a great motivation to go check what you don't get, and because you often need not only understand, but know the cultural references that are used to produce the humoristic effect, to me this is the final step of learning a language. but I digress, I've been trying with russian, I use this site lelang.ru/english/films/ which contains movies in english with both russian and english subtitles, but so far I found only one : frozen, I found the dubbed movie online on another site, and then I mix them to have the russian audio with the subtitles, but all the other movies that I'm checking have different subs from dubbed audio... do you see what I mean ? can you help me ? do you know of another ressource that could provide me with subtitles not made from the original version, but from the DUBBED version ? russian would be my fifth language ! thanks in advance.

[@user-hx6co1ud4z]

I think, ожить is "to come BACK to life", because in my mind it takes the "story" about someone died who "ожил" - has come back to life. am i right?.. But... if someone is made of snow (metals, wood etc or it is a toy, statue...) than he/she will come to life (without "back")... And something else - Статуи оживают is "The statues go live"? Or that is incorrect? P.S. i just learn english in this channel ahahah)

[@russiangrammar]

Yes, Даль gives the definition возвращаться из смерти к жизни, восстать из мёртвых, which I would definitely say is 'come back to life.' On the other hand, there are examples like гомункул ожил, where I'd say 'the homunculus came to life' - without 'back,' because it wasn't alive before. For statues I'd also say 'came to life' - 'go live' makes me think of when a broadcast is live (not recorded), or some product or computer system goes online, becomes operational. :)

[@user-hx6co1ud4z]

Russian grammar ааааа все понял) спасибо!) и я не знаю, что такое гомункул( пойду погуглю...

[@TheMuzykant]

Is there a video on "has been writing"?

[@russiangrammar]

I don't have a video on that, but it's pretty simple: to express an action that began in the past and is continuing in the present, just use the present tense (sometimes with уже). Он пишет уже пять часов = He has been writing for 5 hours. Similarly, but with the past: Она работала там уже 10 лет = She worked/had been working there for ten years.

[@TheMuzykant]

@@russiangrammar Ohhh I see. Thank you very much! How about "will be writing"?

[@russiangrammar]

English progressive tenses ("was writing," "will be writing") describe actions in progress, so the Russian imperfective aspect is a good equivalent: She will be writing = она будет писать, she was writing = она писала, she is writing = она пишет.

[@TheMuzykant]

@@russiangrammar Ah right, almost forgot about "будет". So I assume that if the action has been completed like "she has already written the book" we use perfective? I think I am now getting a better understanding of the function of the English tenses in Russian. Thank you. Your explanations are always clear and concise!

[@russiangrammar]

Yes, if you're viewing the action as completed, we'd use the perfective: Она уже написала книгу.

[@lescommercantesdindochine1954]

There are several Russian grammar mistakes that are commonly made by native Russian speakers, including: Confusing the use of the nominative and accusative cases. Using incorrect verb conjugation in past tense, especially with reflexive verbs. Misusing prepositions and their cases. Inaccurate adjective endings when they modify declinable nouns. Using pronouns incorrectly or inconsistently. However, it's worth noting that these mistakes can vary depending on the individual's level of education, regional dialect, and other factors. Therefore, would it be advisable to focus on the aforementioned common errors ?