Cognates vs. False Cognates

Olga Jarrell

Mar 24, 2021

ПОЛИТИК vs. ПОЛИТИКА

When you hear or see the sentence “Мы говори́м о поли́тике”, do you know what we talk about: politics or a politician? 🤔The...

Olga Jarrell

Jan 12, 2020

You Expect Them to Be Masculine Nouns, but They Are Not

Quite a few English nouns ending in a consonant have corresponding cognates in Russian. The confusing thing is that these English nouns...

Olga Jarrell

Apr 3, 2016

Words easily confused: CLASS vs. КЛАСС

The word CLASS looks like a true cognate of КЛАСС, but, unfortunately, these words can act like false cognates in many usages. Even some...

Olga Jarrell

Sep 20, 2015

Cognates vs. False Cognates

Over the centuries, English and Russian have expanded their vocabularies by borrowing words from different languages. For that reason, we...

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