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Vocabularies / Airport. Flight. Travelling. Аэропорт. Полёт. Путешествия.

Air sickness bag - мешок при воздушной болезни
Airplane - самолёт
Aisle - проход
Aisle seat - место возле прохода
Armrest - подлокотник
Arrival and departure monitor - монитор вылетов и прилётов
Baggage carousel - багажный транспортёр

Vocabularies / Types of shops. Goods. Магазины. Товары.

shop assistant - продавец -консультант
shop window - витрина
shopping centre (mall) - торговый комплекс
shopping list - список покупок
shoplifting - магазинное воровство
go shopping - ходить по магазинам (одежда, обувь)
do the shopping - делать покупки (для дома)

Grammar / Pronoun / Indefinite pronouns кто-нибудь, кто-либо, кое-кто

Indefinite pronouns are words used to refer to unknown, undetermined or intentionally unspecified beings, objects, properties and quantity. In Russian, this function is performed by several sets of pronouns formed from interrogative/relative pronouns:

Grammar / Pronoun / Personal Reflexive Pronoun себя

Personal Reflexive Pronoun себя means "self". It is used when the pronoun is the same person or thing as the subject. You should read the section on reflexive verbs to have a better understanding of how the reflexive is formed in Russian. Себя declines like pronoun тебя and it doesn't have nominative case.

Grammar / Pronoun / Interrogative Pronouns. Вопросительные местоимения.

Interrogative pronouns and adverbs are words used to form different kinds of questions. The most frequently used interrogative words in Russian are:
кто? - who
что? - what
какой? который? - which, what kind of
чей? - whose
сколько? - how much, how many
как? - how
где? - where
куда? - where to
откуда? - where from

почему? - why
 

Grammar / Pronoun / Pronoun друг друга

The pronoun друг друга, called reciprocal pronoun, adds the meaning of reciprocity of an action and corresponds to English 'each other/one another'. It consists of two parts: the first indeclinable part друг and the second part друга which declines and takes the case required by the verb, adjective or preposition. If a preposition occurs, it is placed between the two parts.

The table below represents the declension of this pronoun with and without a preposition.

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