Thread: Разные вопросы по грамматике (by tiudavidharris

"вот" and "вон" are a bit different as they supposed you are almost showing the location: "over there", "right here". You cannot use it on its own interchangeably.

1) "Сюда" means "(towards) here". Like in "Put iy over here", "Bring the book here": Положи его сюда. Неси книгу сюда.
2) "Здесь" means the thing is positioned "here". A static location. "Я здесь давно сижу". "Машина будет прямо здесь, у подъезда".
3) Now, for "вот"
- "Here is ..." sentences where you either hand over something or point at the fact that something/someone is right here: Вот твоя книга ~ Here is your book. Вот и он! ~ Here he comes!
- in sentences like "that's what I need": "Вот что мне нужно". "Значит, вот где он был" - "So that's where he was".
- also used as an emphatic particle sometimes:
"Ну вот, теперь всё переделывать" ~ "Great, now we must start over again and do everything from scratch"
"Вот и всё" ~ "That's all" (a standard expression; too short to have variations)
"Вот это да!" ~ more or less interchangeable with "Ничего себе" and other exclamations with meaning "Wow!"
"Вот так" - the reason you shouldn't have started digging into "вот" at this stage. Literally the combination means "that way", "in this manner". In reality it has a vast array of more emotional uses like "So that's how things got", "That's the way!", "See, like that" and so on. I suggest to focus on more basic things as of now.

Originally Posted by Shady_arc

... I suggest to focus on more basic things as of now.

I would suggest to tiudavidharris to read more Russian books, e.g. books for children. It should be easier over time to start understanding the usage of simple words.

Originally Posted by Lampada

I would suggest to tiudavidharris to read more Russian books, e.g. books for children. It should be easier over time to start understanding the usage of simple words.

Russian books for children? You certainly don't mean fairy tales, I hope.. As for reading - second on that. As soon as you get a good grasp of the laguage, try reading books, sites, whatever you can.

Originally Posted by Shady_arc

Russian books for children? You certainly don't mean fairy tales, I hope.. As for reading - second on that. As soon as you get a good grasp of the laguage, try reading books, sites, whatever you can.

How about Алан Александр Милн. Винни Пух и Все-Все-Все ?

Originally Posted by Lampada

How about Алан Александр Милн. Винни Пух и Все-Все-Все ?

My judgement - an extremely tough reading for a beginner. A rather... tackleable for an intermediate one. Though, I am not convinced that reading translations of English books. Cannot say I know Russian texts much simplier than that. As soon as the knowledge allows reading such texts (3000 words and good grasp of overall grammar, maybe) - well, the learner may try. There's no harm in that.

Thanks god Russian is not Japanese.