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Add Emotion to Your Russian: Emphatic Particles (Part I) Posted by on Feb 22, 2017

parents with daughter in a field

Whenever I read English translations of Russian literature, they strike me as rather matter-of-fact. This may be because Russian often not only describes reality but also expresses the author’s attitude towards it. One way of doing that is through particles (частицы). Take a look at this excerpt from the story “Записки на чинаровых листьях” (“Notes…

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