The 3-Form Strategy for Learning Russian Verbs

Establishing a good habit early on in learning a a language can be really worthwhile... find out why in this video.
Why do some books insist that you learn several forms - not just the infinitive! - with each new Russian verb? It may seem like more trouble... but it will help you in the long run, when it's time to learn imperatives (how to tell or ask someone to do something), or other forms essential for reading Russian.
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[@alexanderl2061]

Whenever your videos come up, I know I'll learn something new. I need to brush up on my participles now!

[@russiangrammar]

Спасибо! There's a playlist on participles here: kzbin.info/aero/PLrIkLgUgjNHfTWmGkEqo7_ge7x50VQEWE ...and a free sample lesson (with more details, example sentences, and exercises) on my Russian Grammar Library project here: www.tips4russian.com/courses/master-russian-participles/lessons/present-active-participles/ 🙂

[@Uhthis]

Thank you for your continuous and wonderful dives into the particulars of Russian!

[@SuperBlackshadow666]

❤ спасибо!!!!

[@VerticalBlank]

Great video! And yes I have found that learning any of the "middle" forms (ты, он, мы, вы) is learning them all, because it's just a matter of matching the final (-шь, -т, -м, -те). As a speaker of French, German and Italian, I find the endings somewhat familiar, enough to wing it in real time.

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

Past tense: allow me to introduce myself

[@HSO-ro3bd]

Those are the easiest ☺

[@russiangrammar]

Yep, the past forms can (mostly) be derived from the infinitive (читать - читал, говорить - говорил, etc.). 🙂

[@VerticalBlank]

PS My Latvian russophone girlfriend tells me that writing the ты form without the final soft sign is a sign of a bad education, similar to native English speakers confusing "your" and "you're". Would you agree?

[@imitatsiya]

my moldovan russophone tutor told me that declining foreign words that end in «-о» (e.g., «пальто», «радио») was also a sign of poor education, since those words are indeclinable

[@russiangrammar]

Yes. Another one you can hear complaints about is when people confuse spellings of the 3rd person singular -тся with the infinitive -ться, since they sound the same.

[@polyanagula]

@@imitatsiya your example is not 100% rule. some people might decline foreign words with -o in an informal conversion, but the speak "correctly" (without declining) in a more formal situation, because they know what is considered to be "correct" prononciation. therefore there are people who are educated, but choose how to speak depending on the situation. However the spelling rules mentioned above don't have exceptions.

[@StrawberryJamming]

thx! my parents speak russian but i wasnt born there so i speak very broken russian lmao