Thread: Попасть

Originally Posted by Matroskin Kot

You don't like his later work?

I didn't mean cinema actually.
You know, when an actor goes on stage and doesn't know the text of his part... And it's not a new performance, but that in which he has been playing for several years... And if it's not only one performance, but almost all where he plays... And if during the whole performance other actors not so much play as prompt his text to him... And if he finds okay to play with headphones in his ears (where a prompter says his text) when no any other actor in Russia plays like that (with headphones)... And when I saw him on stage, even when he knew his text and played well, he didn't touch me as much as other, less famous, actors do.

I understand. Naturally, you'd be disappointed by that display of unprofessionalism. Was he ever a good stage actor?

Originally Posted by Matroskin Kot

Was he ever a good stage actor?

Sure he was. And actually I think he is (if he wants; at least "good", and even "very good"; not "brilliant" though, in my opinion :P ). But his today's attitude to what he can and cannot do on stage seems to be too "starish". Also, now he is not only an actor, but also a functionary since he's main manager of МХАТ. And I don't like many performances in the modern МХАТ. So he's too busy to learn parts.

Originally Posted by Оля

... seems to be too "starish"...

Говоришь, слишком старый стал?

Попасть впросак
- (sry don't know english equivalent)
== Попасться ?
Попасться (пр: под диваном мне попались твои старые тапочки)
-Come across (ex: You'r old sleepers was found by me under the sofa)

Попасться на глаза
-

Попасться с поличным
-

Вчера я звонила тебе, но попала на твоего брата.
Yesterday I phoned you, but you brother picked the reciever.

And now difficult one:

Не говори об этом кому попало.
Don't tell everyone about it.
=)

These look like perfective uses. What is the imperfective form?

He usually gets to work on time.
She usually gets the right answer.
They usually get the production quota.
We usually get to the street at 8 am.
(Or what ever sentences would go with the imperfective form.)

Originally Posted by Seraph

These look like perfective uses. What is the imperfective form?

попадать (inf.), попадает (pres.), попадал (past), попадают (pres. pl.), попадали (past pl.), попадай (imperative) (the last one is funny)