Russian A2 · Elementary

Talk about the past and future with the right aspect, handle verbs of motion, compare things, and use all six cases more confidently in everyday situations.

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  • Verbal aspect: imperfective vs. perfective (introduction) Coming soon
  • Common aspect pairs for everyday verbs Coming soon
  • Future of быть for states, identity and location Coming soon
  • Future tense: imperfective (быть + infinitive) Coming soon
  • Future tense: perfective (simple future) Coming soon
  • Personal pronouns in oblique cases (меня, мне, мной, о нём) Coming soon
  • The possessive pronoun свой Coming soon
  • Reflexive verbs (-ся: учиться, называться, встречаться) Coming soon
  • Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns (себя, друг друга) Coming soon
  • Verbs of motion: идти/ходить and ехать/ездить Coming soon
  • The accusative case: plural forms Coming soon
  • The genitive case: plural forms Coming soon
  • Quantity words with the genitive (много воды, мало книг) Coming soon
  • The genitive case: source and basic prepositions (из, с, от, у, без, для) Coming soon
  • The dative case with к and по Coming soon
  • Verbs governing the dative (нравиться, звонить, помогать) Coming soon
  • The instrumental case with "заниматься" and "интересоваться" Coming soon
  • The instrumental case with "с" (together with) Coming soon
  • The prepositional case: plural forms Coming soon
  • Adjective and pronoun declension across the cases Coming soon
  • Comparative adjectives (быстрее, лучше, более быстрый) Coming soon
  • Superlative adjectives (самый быстрый, лучший) Coming soon
  • Cardinal numbers 20–1000 Coming soon
  • Nouns after cardinal numbers in nominative/accusative phrases (1, 2–4, 5+) Coming soon
  • Ordinal numbers (первый, второй, третий...) Coming soon
  • Telling the time Coming soon
  • Days, dates and time expressions (в понедельник, в 2020 году) Coming soon
  • Aspect in the past tense (imperfective vs. perfective) Coming soon
  • Short-form adjectives (рад, должен, готов) Coming soon
  • Impersonal constructions (можно, нужно, нельзя + dative) Coming soon
  • Basic conjunctions (и, а, но, потому что, если) Coming soon
  • Subordinate clauses with "что" Coming soon
  • Verbs of motion with basic prefixes (прийти, уйти, приехать) Coming soon
  • Time expressions with через, за and на + accusative Coming soon
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