{"id":457,"date":"2009-12-18T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T16:29:03","slug":"to-%c2%ab%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%c2%bb-be-bored-or-to-%c2%ab%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%c2%bb-miss-%e2%80%93-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/to-%c2%ab%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%c2%bb-be-bored-or-to-%c2%ab%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%c2%bb-miss-%e2%80%93-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c\u00bb [be bored] or to \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430\u0442\u044c\u00bb [miss] \u2013 that is THE question!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only two weeks away from the Motherland and it is already time for the usual confession: \u00ab\u044f \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u044e \u043f\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438<\/span>\u0438\u00bb <\/strong>[I miss Russia]! But that’s not all – also \u00ab\u044f \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u044e \u043f\u043e \u0440\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0437\u0438\u043c\u0435<\/span>, \u043f\u043e \u0440\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u0441\u043d\u0435<\/span>\u0433\u0443…\u00bb <\/strong>[I miss the Russian winter, the Russian snow…]. At least I have thousands of photos of Russia dressed in snow like the one above on my computer and looking at them helps me escape \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0448\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0434\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0440\u0435\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [the dreary Swedish reality] for a while…<\/em><\/p>\n

When learning a new language you’ll sooner or later find yourself forced to face the unsettling linguistic phenomena of words that have more than just ONE meaning. The word \u00ab\u0442\u0440\u0430<\/span>\u0443\u0440\u00bb<\/strong> which can mean both \u2018mourning’<\/em> and \u2018sables’<\/em> is one of the less troublesome cases (not all dictionaries even list the translation \u2018sables’) <\/em>because it is not often you’ll actually risk mixing up these two meanings. When you’re learning new words with only two meanings you can consider yourself lucky, at other times you’ll meet words with three or even more meanings. It can be confusing since you won’t always be sure if you’re using the word correctly. \u00ab\u041d\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0448\u0430<\/span>\u0439\u0441\u044f!\u00bb<\/strong> [Don’t fear\/dread!] but convince yourself instead that you’re brave enough to risk it and that you can do it. Let’s have a look at the verb \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> today. This verb is imperfect and has two possible meanings: 1)<\/strong> to be bored; 2)<\/strong> to miss. The key to make sure you’re using this verb properly when you put it in a sentence is to know your prepositions. If you want to use \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> in the sense of \u2018God, I’m so bored!’<\/em> then you need not use any preposition at all. As a matter of fact, if you want to it to express boredom, then never use a preposition after it:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0411\u043e<\/span>\u0436\u0435, \u044f \u0442\u0430\u043a \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u044e!\u00bb<\/strong> – [God, I’m so bored!]<\/p>\n

Although Russians prefer to use the following impersonal construction when telling you they’re bored (do note that both sentences translate into English in the same way)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0411\u043e<\/span>\u0436\u0435, \u043c\u043d\u0435 \u0442\u0430\u043a \u0441\u043a\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u043e!\u00bb<\/strong> – [God, I’m so bored!]<\/p>\n

If you’re not aiming for an expression of \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443<\/span>\u043a\u0430<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> [boredom; tedium], but wanting to communicate missing something as in a lighter form of \u00ab\u0442\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0430<\/span><\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> [anguish; ennui; depression, melancholy; yearning, longing for], you should use the most versatile preposition \u00ab\u043f\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [on; along; over; by; through; in; up; around; about]. When you use this preposition together with the verb \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> make sure that it is followed by an object \u00ab\u0432 \u0434\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u043c \u043f\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u0435<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [in the dative case]:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e \u0447\u0435\u043c\u0443<\/span>-\u0442\u043e, \u043f\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443<\/span>-\u0442\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> – [to miss something, somebody].<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041e\u043d \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u0442 \u043f\u043e \u0420\u043e<\/span>\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> – [He misses his motherland (native country, the country in which he was born)<\/em>].<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041c\u044b \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u043c \u043f\u043e \u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043c\u0443\u00bb<\/strong> – [We’re homesick (we miss our home life)<\/em>].<\/p>\n

But don’t let yourself be limited by just one preposition! You can also use \u00ab\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [(also: \u00ab\u043e\u0431\u043e\u00bb<\/strong>) <\/em>about, of, regarding; on, upon; over; against] as long as you don’t mix it up with the previous preposition, but place the object after it \u00ab\u0432 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043b\u043e<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u043e\u043c \u043f\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u0435<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [the in prepositional case] and you’ll be able to make it something like \u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c \u043e \u043a\u043e<\/span>\u043c-\u0442\u043e\u00bb [<\/strong>to miss somebody]:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0422\u044b \u043d\u0435 \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u0448\u044c \u043e\u0431\u043e \u043c\u043d\u0435<\/span>?\u00bb<\/strong> – [Don’t you miss me?]<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041e\u043d\u0438<\/span> \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430<\/span>\u044e\u0442 \u043e \u0432\u0430\u0441\u00bb<\/strong> – [They miss you (plural)<\/em>].<\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u0421\u043a\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u043e \u043d\u0430 \u044d<\/span>\u0442\u043e\u043c \u0441\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u0435, \u0433\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0430<\/span>!\u00bb<\/a><\/em><\/strong> [It is boring on this earth, (ladies and) gentlemen!]<\/em><\/p>\n

I know you’ve probably heard this \u00ab\u043a\u0440\u044b\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u043e\u0435 \u0432\u044b\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> [winged expression] above many times before – and it always the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of boredom in Russian – but where is it from? It is from the end of the famous novella \u00ab\u041f\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043e \u0442\u043e\u043c, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0441\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u043b\u0441\u044f \u0418\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u043d \u0418\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0441 \u0418\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u043e\u043c \u041d\u0438\u043a\u0438<\/span>\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447\u0435\u043c\u00bb<\/a> <\/strong>[“The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich”<\/a>] by everybody’s favorite Ukrainian born Russian writer \u00ab\u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0439 \u0412\u0430\u0441\u0438<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0413\u043e<\/span>\u0433\u043e\u043b\u044c<\/a>\u00bb <\/strong>[Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol<\/a>]. The year of 2009 belonged rightly to him – 200 years after his birth – and all of the celebrations had many people wondering: “Has anything at all happened in Russia since Gogol?” And many more people answering: \u00ab\u0412\u0438\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u043c\u043e \u043d\u0435\u0442…\u00bb<\/strong> [Apparently not…] What do you think? What would Gogol do, had he lived and worked as a writer in today’s Russia? Would he have written \u00ab\u041c\u0451<\/span>\u0440\u0442\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0434\u0443\u0448\u0438<\/span><\/a>\u00bb <\/strong>[“Dead Souls<\/a>“] and \u00ab\u0420\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0437\u043e<\/span>\u0440<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> [“The Inspector General<\/a>“] in today’s Russian society even \u00ab\u0434\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0434\u0446\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043b\u0435\u0442 \u043f\u043e<\/span>\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0439\u043a\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [twenty years after perestroika]?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Only two weeks away from the Motherland and it is already time for the usual confession: \u00ab\u044f \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430\u044e \u043f\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438\u00bb [I miss Russia]! But that’s not all – also \u00ab\u044f \u0441\u043a\u0443\u0447\u0430\u044e \u043f\u043e \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0437\u0438\u043c\u0435, \u043f\u043e \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u0441\u043d\u0435\u0433\u0443…\u00bb [I miss the Russian winter, the Russian snow…]. At least I have thousands of photos of Russia dressed…<\/p>\n

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