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Lesson 1 - Russian nouns. Tea. Hi everyone! Please enjoy a new series of videos which will help you study Russian.

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Good day to you, today we'll continue looking at some nouns and adjectives, and how they can live together. Interesting thing, while in English we always need a verb in the sentence, and usually words are structured and go in a predetermined order, in Russian that's a bit different.
If you want to tell about a beautiful flower in English, you say something like 'this flower is beautiful', at least. And you use IS. Which is a verb. in Russian you don't need this. Instead, you put a long dash there. But not always.

So,
a flower - цветок [czvetok]
beautiful - красивый [krasiviy]
this - этот [etot]

and it is:
Этот цветок - красивый.

note the ending: красивЫЙ.
This is a masculine ending. One more masculine ending for adjectives is ИЙ [iy]. The difference - Ы makes the preceding consonant hard, and И - soft.
Also there is an ending ОЙ [oy], also masculine.

Feminine endings are АЯ and ЯЯ. The difference - the same. АЯ makes the preceding consonant hard, ЯЯ - soft.

If you want to put an adjective next to a feminine noun, just change the ending.

How to know if a noun is feminine or masculine?
Easy. Most masculine nouns don't have vowels at the end. And most feminine ones have А or Я ending.

But let's make something feminine beautiful. And change the word красивЫЙ to красивАЯ.

And for this we will look at some feminine nouns:

a rose - роза [roza]
a picture - картина [kartina]
a woman - женщина [jenschina]
nature - природа [priroda]
grass - трава [trava]
a car - машина [mashina]
a story - история [istoriya]

note the ending!

and now -

красивая роза, or этА роза - красивАЯ
красивая картина, эта картина - красивая
красивая женщина, эта женщина - красивая
красивая природа, природа - красивая
красивая трава, эта трава - красивая
красивая машина, эта машина - красивая
красивая история, эта история - красивая

I guess, that's all for today, next time I will show you one more gender - neuter.
I'm leaving you with some adjectives and nouns - guess the gender and mix them up!

nouns:

an orange - апельсин [apelsin]
juice - сок [sok]
water - вода [voda]
wind - ветер [veter]
food - еда [eda]
weather - погода [pogoda]
a river - река [reka]
a bike - велосипед [velosiped]
sand - песок [pesok]

adjectives:

fresh - свежий [svejiy]
good - хорошая [horoshaya]
hot - горячий [goryachiy]
cold - холодный [holodniy]
fast - быстрая [bistraya]
yellow - жёлтый [joltiy]

Good luck)

Hi! My name's Olya, and this is our first lesson of Russian language. No matter what you need it for – it has to become your Russian. It's not simple, as any other language. My method is to teach you speak simply.
Complicated things we will split into easy ones, and will not make simple things complicated. In some situations we will act rough, but we will achieve the result.
In this lesson I will tell you some facts to show what the Russian language looks like.
English alphabeth has 26 letters, in Russian there are 33. At least half of them will sound familiar to you. But you won’t meet there sounds [w], [ð] or [ɵ], and some others.
Every written letter is to be read. For example, if the word “make” were russian, it would be read [make]. But there are two letters in Russian alphabet that are not read. These are a soft sign ь and a hard sign ъ. They are sort of auxiliary letters and serve to soften or to harden the consonant preceeding them. For example, a word steel - сталь. Without the soft sign it would sound [stal] instead of [stal’].
The main characteristic feature of Russian language is the system of endings. They indicate tense (present, past or future), number, gender etc.
All nouns have gender. It can be feminine (female), masculine (male), neuter or general.
For example
a car машина is she – feminine
a train поезд is he – masculine
the sky небо is it – neuter
So even a book книга is she.
And looking at the ending you can know what gender it is.
If the word “car” were russian, it would be of a masculine gender, for it ends with a consonant.
In English adjectives don’t have gender. When you speak about a blue car, blue train or blue sky, the word “blue” doesn’t change. In Russian the adjective characterising the noun takes its gender and the ending changes each time you change the gender.
Blue car – синяя машина (feminine)
Blue train - Синий поезд (masculine)
Blue sky - Синее небо (neuter)
If blue were a Russian word, then the car would be some kind of blueяя, and the train – blueий. Don’t be scared, but the sky would be blueee.
If English is based upon 12 tenses, in Russian there are only 5 of them. All the needed information is shown with the help of endings and prefixes.
Besides, you will meet no articles before nouns and almost no auxiliary verbs.
We can hardly master Russian language in one lesson, to finish I will show you one more interesting detail.
Russian language has two words for english “you”. They are ты and вы. Ты is used when speaking to somebody you know well. It can be your friend, a family member, a child, an animal. But if a person is older than you, you’d better call him вы. Вы is used also when talking to strangers, people in position of authority, in-laws, and to show special respect. Young people tell each other ты, whether they know each other or not.
Вы is a plural form for both ты and вы.