Russian 1121: Review Papers

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Review Paper #1 (Lessons 1 - 14)

Use Beginning Russian or 5000 Russian Words to find the answers to the following questions. Write your answers (in English or Russian, as appropriate) and the references (page numbers).
  1. In Иван Петрович Бородин, Иван is the first name, and Бородин is the last name. What is Петрович? What does it come from?
  2. Which vowel letters in Russian are palatal indicators?
  3. What is the transcription of the following letters in the transcription system used in Beginning Russian:
    Ж
    Ш
    Щ
    Ч
    Ц
  4. Translate:
    I know.
    You (informal) know.
    You (formal) know.
  5. Why is Аню spelled with ю and Анну, with у?
  6. What form is Мђшу? Cite two sentences/constructions where it is used.
  7. What is the stem in the word чашка?
  8. What does the government pattern of a verb tell you?
  9. What does "adjective/noun agreement" mean?
  10. What spelling rule do you know that involves the letter к?
  11. Which of the two stress marks in Ѓнгло-рџсский is the principal stress, and which is the secondary stress?
  12. Spell the Prepositional case (Singular) of these phrases (mark stress):
    рџсский дћм
    мої Каледћния
    большће яйцћ
    трџдное упражнљние
  13. When is the preposition о used, and when is the preposition об used?
  14. What sounds do these letters represent after a vowel and/or after ь:
    и
    е
    ё
    я
    ю

Review Paper #2 (Lessons 15 - 28)

Use Beginning Russian or 5000 Russian Words to find the answers to the following questions. Write your answers (in English or Russian, as appropriate) and the references (page numbers). Although this is called a "review" paper, one of its purposes is to teach you how to use referecne materials (the index in the textbook, the various sections of the introduction and appendix in the dictionary, etc.). For some of the questions you will have to look up things that you have not yet seen in the course.
  1. Is the phrase в кино ambiguous? In what way?
  2. What is peculiar about endings such as синий, домашний, etc.? What spelling rule applies to them? Cite three examples and show how their endings are different from, e.g. трудный, красный.
  3. In terms of spelling rules, how is the letter ц different from other "noisy" consonants?
  4. From looking up a verb entry in 5000 Russian Words, how can you tell which conjugation the verb belongs to?
  5. In the 5000 Russian Words verb entries, e.g. писать, what do the letters MS mean? Why two letters? What does each of them mean? (hint: this hasn't yet been explained in Beginning Russian)
  6. Spell the genitive singular forms of (mark stress):
    домђшнее задђние
    мћй учќтель
    нђша статьї
    хорћшее занїтие
  7. How can you tell for sure whether a noun is animate or inanimate?
  8. Translate: "We were playing chess. I took my king and put it on the table."
  9. Какого вида глагол «играть» — совершенного или несовершенного?
  10. In the 5000 Russian Words noun entries, e.g. слово, what do the letters SE mean? Why two letters? What does each of them mean? (hint: this hasn't yet been explained in Beginning Russian)
  11. Spell GSg (genitive singular) and NPlur (nominative plural) of письмо. How does one tell the difference between these forms,
    1) when reading and
    2) when hearing them?
  12. In the sentence Он завтра откроет окно, can you tell which word is the verb and which aspect it is without looking up the verb? How can you tell?
  13. Translate the sentence "Pete told Boris that he (Pete) opened his dictionary" 2 ways:
    1) the dictionary is Pete's and
    2) the dictionary is Boris's.
    Hint: look up "possession" in the Index at the end of Beginning Russian.

Review Paper #3 (Lessons 29 - 52)

  1. Translate (show stress and pp. to which you referred for grammar rules, verb government, etc.):
    "Where's Sasha?"
    "He went to Slava's."

    "Where did you go today, Sasha?"
    "I went to a concert."

    There wasn't any wine.

    In August we won't have any milk.

    They say there's a good library in Kiev.

    You will need a dictionary.

    He came back from his first class.

    Are you interested in chess?
  2. What is the government pattern of the following verbs? Show what cases you would use for the nouns referring to the persons and things when using these verbs in a sentence.
    попросќть
    подарќть
  3. Which forms of these nouns are irregular and what is irregular about them? (In other words, show what the forms would have been if they were regular). Mark stress.
    їблоко
    рукђ
    грџдь
  4. Spell the Dative and Accusative of these phrases. Note that some of them are plural. Mark stress.
    большће їблоко
    хорћшие словарќ
    нђши музљи
    вђша сестрђ
  5. Which are the "noisy" consonants and which are the "unpaired" consonants? What spelling rules are associated with the "noisy" consonants? (hint: for the six unpaired consonants, look up "Paired consonants" in the Index to Beginning Russian; also, look up Genitive plural endings in the same Index)
  6. What are the four irregular verbs in Russian for which you cannot create the non-past forms from the non-past stem, i.e. from the 3rd person plural?
  7. What are the two ways to express the future in Russian?
  8. How do you know if the plural of a regular masculine or feminine noun ends in -ы or -и?
  9. What do we call the phonetic mutation that is manifested in the change from вид- to виж- in видеть/вижу and from ход- to хож- in ходить/хожу?