Russian B2 · Upper-intermediate

Read and write in a more literary, formal style with participles and gerunds, master the passive voice, and choose aspect and register with real precision.

• Present active participles (-ущий/-ющий/-ащий/-ящий) Coming soon
• Past active participles (-вший/-ший) Coming soon
• Present passive participles (-емый/-имый) Coming soon
• Past passive participles (-нный/-тый/-енный) Coming soon
• Declension of participles like adjectives Coming soon
• Imperfective gerunds (деепричастия: делая, читая) Coming soon
• Perfective gerunds (деепричастия: сделав, прочитав) Coming soon
• The passive voice with short-form passive participles Coming soon
• Reported speech: deixis, pronouns and register Coming soon
• Subordinate clauses with чтобы after wishes, demands and recommendations Coming soon
• Unreal (counterfactual) conditionals in the past Coming soon
• Aspect nuance with verbs of speech and thought Coming soon
• Verbal nouns (отглагольные существительные: чтение, решение) Coming soon
• Generalised impersonal -ся constructions Coming soon
• Complex connectors (в связи с тем что, несмотря на то что) Coming soon
• Choosing between a participle and a "который" clause Coming soon
• Advanced verbal government (verbs taking two objects, prepositional government) Coming soon
• Word formation: deverbal nouns and adjectives Coming soon
• Formal and concessive conditional connectors (при условии что, в случае если, даже если) Coming soon
• Discourse particles (же, ведь, ну, вот) Coming soon