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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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