Thread: Difference Between Words

Hi, I've been studing Russian for a month so far, and I've come across 6 words, that apparently mean the same thing, can anyone help me sort the differences among them?

бегат - бежит
немножко - немного
потеряли - пропал

thanks in advance

You need to check conjugation rules (verbs in Russian change their form depending on person, number, tense, etc.). For example, in phrases "I run" and "we run" you'll have to use different forms of the Russian verb "to run": "Я бегу" and "мы бежим"

So...
бегать - бежит
бегать - to run (infinitive), бежит - (he/she) runs (i.e. "to run" in the second person, present tense)
немножко - немного = a little (bit). It's basically the same, but the former is slightly more colloquial.

потеряли - пропал - different verbs altogether
потеряли (inf. потерять - to lose) = (they) lost (plural, past tense)
e.g. They lost their innocence.
пропал (inf. пропасть to disappear, to get lost) = (he) got lost (singular, masc., past tense)
e.g. This man disappeared and no one knows where he is (Этот человек пропал и никто не знает, где он).

Maybe бегает - бежит? It has more sense...

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Maybe бегает - бежит? It has more sense...

yeah, I guess you are right. Or it could be "бегают"
Anyway, there's a letter missing, so we can't know for sure.

Thank you very much for your answers! It really helped me sort out the differences, although in my book some "stuff" doesn't make sense

For Example: To lose

мы потеряли ключ
у меня пропал бумажник

I mean, is any of this uses of the verbs to lose wrong? Because they seem to be used in the same way.

The verb: to run
I looked on google (google translate), and entered the word "run" and appeared the following 93 words meaning "to run" (I know many doesn`t mean to run, but i couldn`t sort out the difference between the first 2)
бегать
бежать
And I though that (бежит) was "he runs" for the verb (бежать).
Can you help me with this silly question?

TKS!

Use this to find translations: http://lingvo.yandex.ru/
examples: run, бежать.

I looked on google (google translate), and entered the word "run" and appeared the following 93 words meaning "to run" (I know many doesn`t mean to run, but i couldn`t sort out the difference between the first 2)
бегать
бежать

It's multi/uni-directional verb of motion. "Бегать" lacks concrete target.

And I though that (бежит) was "he runs" for the verb (бежать).

Yes.

мы потеряли ключ means We lost the key.
у меня пропал бумажник means My wallet is missing.

бегает - бежит - both mean "run", something like the difference between "to run" and "running", i.e. there is a difference but it's rather subtle
немножко - немного - the same, different levels of formality
потеряли - пропал - kind of similar, if you lost something you can say that you потерял it, or that it пропал, etc.