First of all, I might as well mention that I'm taking latin, and some because of the way my teacher explained certain things and what they are (Cases, participles, tenses, infinitives, etc) I have been able to study and understand them in russian. Now, we've not done anything dealing with moods, though I've heard we've done the indicative mood already without knowing it. I am now aware that russian has moods too, and my textbook failed to mention that just like it didn't mention gerunds, and the remaining participles. So...I am basically asking what the subjunctive mood and passive voice are, how to form them, how they're translated...and how to use them. I'm also wondering how to form gerunds...I've noticed a lot of them end in -я, so I'm assuming you take the stem and add that ending? How do you use gerunds? Thanks!