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“Sit down, stand up, lie, lay, lain!” (Verbs of Position) Posted by on Oct 3, 2012

[Note: My original post made a few errors with prepositions and noun cases that have now been fixed!] I think I’ve mentioned that my first-year college Russian textbook illuminated the verb лежать included the grimly Dostoyevskian example sentence: Труп лежит на полу. The corpse is lying on the floor.   Well, that’s one verb I’ll…

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