This was so, so helpful! In 6 years of learning Russian I've never found anything else that explains this quite so well. Thank you too for the video format. So much easier to concentrate without overstimulating visuals!
I really like that you go into intermediate/advanced topics and explain them very well with many examples. Most other videos just stick with beginner to slightly intermediate topics or just gloss over harder and more nuanced topics like this.
A few options: поспать = 'to sleep for a while, take a nap;' or выспаться = 'to get enough sleep/get a good night's sleep' (with imperfective высыпаться). And проспать can also be used in the sense of sleeping through a certain amount of time: Господи, как можно всю жизнь проспать на этом диване… Lord, how can you sleep your whole life away on this couch... [Дина Рубина. Белая голубка Кордовы (2008-2009)] А она, конечно, может проспать и до двенадцати. And she, of course, can sleep until 12. [Константин Воробьев. Вот пришел великан (1971)]
Very very important concepts here Prefixes perfectivize Suffixes imperfectivize I do think the pair model falls apart a good bit once you look at special versus natural perfectives long enough, eg words of sounds have no true natural perfective whatsoever, just three reliable “special ” through по про and за. Seems to me that the pair model and all reference to natural perfective is just us kidding ourselves (for a very debatable benefit! Ведь throwing out the pair model for a more tree based approach may well be far quicker to learn), and that supposed natural perfectives like написать are simply situationally common (what’s the most common way to “finish” writing? : to finish writing a certain *quantity*, ie a message, a book, a sentence etc, therefore quantity emphasis makes на- a baseline *choice*)…. Might just be gaslighting myself tho
This was so, so helpful! In 6 years of learning Russian I've never found anything else that explains this quite so well. Thank you too for the video format. So much easier to concentrate without overstimulating visuals!
I really like that you go into intermediate/advanced topics and explain them very well with many examples. Most other videos just stick with beginner to slightly intermediate topics or just gloss over harder and more nuanced topics like this.
Very useful video to a very daunting hurdle.
I'm glad it helped!
Your Russian videos help me a lot! I've watched your motion verbs videos many times. I feel like I mostly get it now lol.
It is really clear and usefull. Большое спасибо
Thanks for your very useful videoes..🎉❤🎉
My pleasure 😊!
what if want tosay sleep in the perfective, without the aditional meaning?
A few options: поспать = 'to sleep for a while, take a nap;' or выспаться = 'to get enough sleep/get a good night's sleep' (with imperfective высыпаться). And проспать can also be used in the sense of sleeping through a certain amount of time: Господи, как можно всю жизнь проспать на этом диване… Lord, how can you sleep your whole life away on this couch...
[Дина Рубина. Белая голубка Кордовы (2008-2009)]
А она, конечно, может проспать и до двенадцати. And she, of course, can sleep until 12.
[Константин Воробьев. Вот пришел великан (1971)]
Почти везде рассказывают как сделать из базового имперфектив глагола перфектив. Но немногие, что из перфектив можно сделать секондари имперфектив.
Very very important concepts here
Prefixes perfectivize
Suffixes imperfectivize
I do think the pair model falls apart a good bit once you look at special versus natural perfectives long enough, eg words of sounds have no true natural perfective whatsoever, just three reliable “special ” through по про and за.
Seems to me that the pair model and all reference to natural perfective is just us kidding ourselves (for a very debatable benefit! Ведь throwing out the pair model for a more tree based approach may well be far quicker to learn), and that supposed natural perfectives like написать are simply situationally common (what’s the most common way to “finish” writing? : to finish writing a certain *quantity*, ie a message, a book, a sentence etc, therefore quantity emphasis makes на- a baseline *choice*)….
Might just be gaslighting myself tho
It's nice that you don't just assume everyone watching is an English native speaker...