Grammar
Russian A2
Introduce past narration, movement, and the first big meaning contrasts with more depth.
On this level
- Narration
Talk about finished actions and past scenes more clearly.
- Verb meaning
Meet the patterns that change how Russian handles completion and result.
- Connected sentences
Make Russian feel more like real discourse instead of isolated phrases.
Narration
Talk about finished actions and past scenes more clearly.
Past tense in Russian
Russian past-tense forms reflect gender and number, so you need to notice who is involved as well as when it happened.
Motion verbs for simple travel
Use идти and ехать to describe going on foot or by transport in common everyday situations.
Future with буду + infinitive
Russian often uses буду plus the infinitive to talk about future ongoing or planned action with imperfective verbs.
Verb meaning
Meet the patterns that change how Russian handles completion and result.
Aspect basics
Russian often contrasts imperfective process with perfective completion in a very compact way.
Можно and нужно
Russian often uses short impersonal expressions to talk about permission, possibility, and necessity.
Starting and finishing actions
Russian often uses verbs like начать and закончить to frame the beginning or completion of an action clearly.
Connected sentences
Make Russian feel more like real discourse instead of isolated phrases.
Потому что and но
Link reasons and contrast in short connected sentences.
Comparatives with более and чем
Russian can compare degree directly with более and чем in many practical descriptive sentences.
Когда clauses
Когда helps Russian connect time and event in a natural way for narration and planning.