Thread: Verb Conjugation---AHHHHHHH

Oh, Ok I get it. They say that some words with these endings are exceptions. Cохнуть is one of them, it is true.

Ok. I'm not going to worry about that, though. I'll do it later. But, Do you have any suggestions about learning about nouns. It's as if I've been neglecting them. Like, what order should I learn them in?

I am not a teacher of Russian, it's my native language, so I'd be hesitant to tell where to start. However, I am learning French now, and what they do is they teach us to be functional. This means you study words (nouns, verbs and expressions) related to everyday needs, like weather, food, clothing, travel, services, etc. Basically, imagine that you are in Moscow and you need to survive. You have to get to a hotel, you have to buy food and you have to get to an airport first thing in the morning to get the hell outta there . Can you do that?

Oh, That's so awesome. I wish I spoke russian as a native language. Right now, I couldn't handle that... but I'll take your suggestion. Oh, french has a lot of latin in it, by the way.

Oooo.... I just thought of this. Does the russian future tense use the same endings as present tense?

Yes, but you conjugate the perfective. An imperfective conjugated is present tense and a perfective conjugated is future tense.

K... so Future compound really isn't Future tense when conjugated?

If you conjugate a perfective verb, it becomes future tense.

убивать/убить

я тебя убиваю. (Imperfective) - I am killing you.

я тебя убью. (Perfect) - I will kill you.

I'm sure I could have chosen a nicer verb, but this is just what popped into my head.