How to Learn Russian: A Manual for Students of Russian Based Upon the Ollendorffian System of Teaching Languages |
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Page 11 - Двадцать букв: б, в, г, д, ж, з, к, л, м, н, п, р, с, т, ф, х, ц, ч,ш,щ — называются согласными.
Page 133 - ABSOLUTE. /shall or mill have thou shall or wilt have he shall 01 will have we shall or will have you shall or will have they shall or will have...
Page 240 - These conjugations are distinguished by the inflexions of the second person singular and the third person plural of the present.
Page 423 - These compound verbs are conjugated like the simple verbs from which they are formed.
Page 298 - E. — To have, followed by a noun expressing that the part of the body signified by it is affected with pain, or illness, may be translated into Spanish by Tener dolor de, or by Doler ; when the latter is made use of, the noun representing the part affected is placed in the nominative, as a subject, and the person suffering, in the objective case.
Page 299 - The word by , which is sometimes used in English after a comparative, to denote how much a thing exceeds another, is rendered in French by de, not by par.
Page 124 - I have as much of this as of that. I have as much of the former as of the latter. I have as much of the one as of the other. Have you as many shoes as pantaloons ? I have as many of these as of those.
Page 261 - Comparison of Adjectives. — With the exception of this and that, adjectives are not inflected for number ; none are inflected for case. Some, however, are inflected to show the degree to which a noun possesses a quality or characteristic. This process is called comparison. There are said to be three degrees of comparison, — the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. Adjectives which simply denote the quality possessed, without stating the degree to which it is possessed, are said to...
Page 310 - The present gerund expresses an action that is commenced and still continues, and is formed from the third person plural of the present indicative by changing the termination into я or учи (ючи), as: Дъмаютъ, they do ; д'Ьтая, дъмаючп, doing (whilst they do).
Page 322 - I should not read it Should we find him at home now ! You would not find him. Would your sisters invite mine, if—!