Product Description

Verbs—the key to a living language

750 Russian Verbs and Their Uses gives you the key to a living language—verbs in context.

Verbs give speech power and movement. Russian verbs have subtleties that usually can be appreciated only after years of study and conversation with native speakers. 750 Russian Verbs and Their Uses gives you all the correct variations and adds immediately to your command of the language.

Correct usages are illustrated in common phrases and idioms, and close attention is paid to verb aspect—a special concern to students of Russian.

Perfect for students or for businesspeople who are working to develop one of the world's most exciting commercial markets, here is the book that will help you understand and express yourself in an important and intricate tongue.

Also available in the series: 750 German Verbs and Their Uses, 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses, and 750 French Verbs and Their Uses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #948046 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-18
• Released on: 1997-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, Russian

From the Publisher
A unique and valuable alphabetized reference which offers the fundation of language study, correct verb usage, by illustrating verb conjugations in their usual contexts. Proper usages are demonstrated in commonly used Russian phrases, with emphasis placed on unusual and troublesome expressions. Contains examples in both Roman and Cyrillic character alphabets.

From the Back Cover
Verbs--the key to a living language

750 Russian Verbs and Their Uses gives you the key to a living language--verbs in context.

Verbs give speech power and movement. Russian verbs have subtleties that usually can be appreciated only after years of study and conversation with native speakers. 750 Russian Verbs and Their Uses gives you all the correct variations and adds immediately to your command of the language.

Correct usages are illustrated in common phrases and idioms, and close attention is paid to verb aspect--a special concern to students of Russian.

Perfect for students or for businesspeople who are working to develop one of the world's most exciting commercial markets, here is the book that will help you understand and express yourself in an important and intricate tongue.

Also available in the series: 750 German Verbs and Their Uses, 750 Spanish Verbs and Their Uses, and 750 French Verbs and Their Uses.

Customer Reviews

One of the best verb references for Russian!
Although it isn't as exhaustive as Daum and Shenk's verb tome, this book is perhaps even more essential for the Russian language learner. Its strengths are that it not only covers petty much all but the most specialized verbs (believe me, 750 verbs are more than you'll ever actively use), but it also illustrates them in context -- giving you the variant meanings when used with different cases and in conjunction with different prepositions. These last two points pose the biggest difficulties in using Russian verbs properly, once the learner has mastered the conjugations and the idea of aspect. Regular practice with this book would benefit ever the most advanced students of Russian.

Now, if someone would just craft a good workbook using this book as a basis, we would have a very powerful learning tool!

Very helpful
I found this book to be very useful; I appreciated the examples that show the various meanings of the verbs. It usually gives at least two examples for each verb, often more. However, it does not show the complete conjugation of each verb, which is useful when learning Russian. It does have an appendix which explains conjugation, but it is not convenient to use. Overall, though, I found this book extremely interesting and useful, and recommend it for students of Russian.

good reference for verbs, prepositions, and objects
If you're like me, you have a hard enough time just picking up vocabulary, let alone trying to remember which prepositions are used with certain verbs, and which verbs can take objects in the dative, genitive, prepositional, or instrumental case. This book covers all these areas and gives good examples.

My only complaint is that sometimes verbs are shown with their aspectual pairs, and sometimes they aren't. For example, the perfective verb kupit' is listed by itself, but the listing for the imperfective form pokupat' shows both forms.