Verbal Prefixes in Russian: an Introduction

[@mechanarwhal7830]

This was so, so helpful! In 6 years of learning Russian I've never found anything else that explains this quite so well. Thank you too for the video format. So much easier to concentrate without overstimulating visuals!

[@unbearable9770]

Very useful video to a very daunting hurdle.

[@russiangrammar]

I'm glad it helped!

[@micah_andre]

Your Russian videos help me a lot! I've watched your motion verbs videos many times. I feel like I mostly get it now lol.

[@mariannethomas9347]

It is really clear and usefull. Большое спасибо

[@Mahdawy11]

Thanks for your very useful videoes..🎉❤🎉

[@russiangrammar]

My pleasure 😊!

[@NoahSteckley]

Very very important concepts here Prefixes perfectivize Suffixes imperfectivize I do think the pair model falls apart a good bit once you look at special versus natural perfectives long enough, eg words of sounds have no true natural perfective whatsoever, just three reliable “special ” through по про and за. Seems to me that the pair model and all reference to natural perfective is just us kidding ourselves (for a very debatable benefit! Ведь throwing out the pair model for a more tree based approach may well be far quicker to learn), and that supposed natural perfectives like написать are simply situationally common (what’s the most common way to “finish” writing? : to finish writing a certain *quantity*, ie a message, a book, a sentence etc, therefore quantity emphasis makes на- a baseline *choice*)…. Might just be gaslighting myself tho

[@dmitryche8905]

Почти везде рассказывают как сделать из базового имперфектив глагола перфектив. Но немногие, что из перфектив можно сделать секондари имперфектив.

[@thisisnotmyrealname6046]

It's nice that you don't just assume everyone watching is an English native speaker...