Duo Russian Grammar

44) Time expressions 2

More popular time expressions

  • теп́ерь is the word for "now" when you mean that there is a change from how it was before ("Now I live in Rome", "What do we do now!?", "Now you know Russian"). We are pretty lenient on the distinction in the course, though.
  • use «через» + Accusative to express an amount of time that should pass before the event comes («через неделю» = in a week, a week later).
  • use Accusative + «назад» to express "X time ago"(«сто лет назад» = 100 years ago). «Тому назад» means the same thing but this use has been quickly losing its popularity since WWII and isn't taught here (it is mostly characteristic of people born before 1950).
  • по + Dative pl. expresses "on Mondays" etc.

рисовать, планировать...

Verbs with suffixes -ова/-ева replace it with уй sound in their present tense stem. The actual endings will be -ую, -уешь, -ует and so on:

  • Я рисую, планирую, анализирую, радуюсь
  • Она рисует, анализирует ...

There is also an unproductive class of verbs with -давать, -ставать, -знавать that exhibits similar behaviour (ва→й):

  • Я даю, встаю,
  • Ты даёшь, узнаёшь.

It's small, but it has some popular imperfective verbs like «вставать» (get up), «давать» (give), «уставать» (get tired) and «узнавать» (to learn some piece of information).

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