Thread: Chapter 19 questions

Hello, Zorro,
From what I perceive, the purpose of your exercise is : 1) for students of Russian to remember that only the imprefective forms are used in the Present tense, while both imperfective and perfective are used in the Past and in the Present, -- and you already know it,
And 2) for you to recognize which ones are the imperfective, either by their prefizes or by their suffixes.

You are right, since the choice you are offered is between "умываться" and "умыться", then the example should have been, "я открываю глаза (which is somewhat artificial, we would say, "просыпаюсь"), встаю, УМЫВАЮСЬ....."

Possibly, neither the author of the textbook, nor the editor re attentive enough to notice a discrepancy between the task and the example. You noticed, and it means you are learning well! Congrats!

Thanks it-ogo and Yulia,

This is a simple question on the same excercise. When you have a series of verbs and they are in the future imperfective, can you omit the auxiliary verb after using it once? For example: Я буду открывать глаза, вставать, умываться, завтракать и идти на работу. Do you need to repeat буду or not? Also, does this sentence make sense in Russian? In English would it be "I will be opening my eyes, will be getting up..."? It sounds a little weird.

Z

Originally Posted by zorro

Thanks it-ogo and Yulia,

This is a simple question on the same excercise. When you have a series of verbs and they are in the future imperfective, can you omit the auxiliary verb after using it once? For example: Я буду открывать глаза, вставать, умываться, завтракать и идти на работу. Do you need to repeat буду or not? Also, does this sentence make sense in Russian? In English would it be "I will be opening my eyes, will be getting up..."? It sounds a little weird.

Z

You can skip буду using it once. It is OK.

This sentence makes sense if you refer to repeating action in the future:
Каждый день я буду открывать глаза, вставать, умываться, завтракать и идти на работу.

If it is one-time action, you should use perfective:
Завтра я открою глаза, встану, умоюсь, позавтракаю и пойду на работу.