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No. 1
See if you can read Russian
graffiti.
• What’s the sentiment being
expressed in the sentence in
the middle of the railing?
• To whom is it addressed?
• Who wrote it?
• Note the phrase on the
bottom left. What does it say?
Who is Цой? Look for videos
of him on YouTube.
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No. 2
This piece of graffiti isn’t as
clear.
• To whom is it
addressed?
• What does it say?
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No. 3
This is from a 1970s Soviet
propaganda poster.
• What’s the man asking
you?
• How would you answer
him? (по-русски!)
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No. 4
Арбат—это известная
улица в Москве. Это дом
No. 25.
• Почему этот дом
известный?
• Кто такой Денис
Давыдов?
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No. 5
We know that the accusative
case is used after the
prepositions в and на when
the verb conveys motion or
direction; note that it will also
be used with nouns derived
from verbs of motion.
You’ll see signs like this in
every metro stop.
• What does it say?
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No. 6
This sign on a trolleybus
window uses accusative in a
similar way.
• What is it telling you?
• What should we infer
from the –юю ending on the
adjective?
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No. 7
This building belongs to one
of the major universities in
Moscow.
• What do you think is the
difference between русский
and российский?
Note that this is a
гуманитарный университет.
• Как ты думаешь, какие
предметы изучают студенты
в гуманитарном
университете?
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No. 8
• What is this an ad for?
How do you know?
•Where can you see the
film? (по-русски!)
• How would you translate
the title?
• Как ты думаешь, это
русский фильм?
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No. 9
The message in this ad is
pretty apparent.
• Take a guess on what
the verb means and
then look it up. What’s
the infinitive form?
• Write out its full
conjugation. How do we
account for the endings
in the я and они forms?
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No. 10
This quote is found on an early
Soviet-era propaganda poster.
• Who is being quoted here?
• Превратить (used with the
preposition в + accusative)
means “to turn (something) into
(something),” which means both
“somethings” will be in the
accusative case. This particular
form of the verb conveys an
inclusive imperative: “Let’s
turn…” What does the speaker
want to turn into what?
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No. 11
Remember that when we
say “Меня зовут...,” we
are using a passive thirdperson plural construction
with the accusative case.
• To whom is this billboard
addressed?
• How would you translate
the second line?
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No. 12
С полуслова means “at a
glance” (or, literally, “at
half a word”).
• How would you
translate this ad?
