Russian for English speakers Beach · Lesson 0

Wonderful weather

Wonderful Russian weather — Какая прекрасная погода! — past tense and weather conditions.

Conversation

  1. Shelladonna Shelladonna

    Какая прекрасная погода была вчера!

    Kakaja prekrasnaja pogoda byla včera!

    What a wonderful weather it was yesterday!

  2. Rocky Rocky

    Сегодня тоже хорошая!Только немного пасмурно

    Segodnja tože horošaja!Tolʹko nemnogo pasmurno

    Today is a good one too.Only a bit cloudy

  3. Shelladonna Shelladonna

    Вчера было солнечно, и мы много загорали

    Včera bylo solnečno, i my mnogo zagorali

    Yesterday it was sunny and we were sunbathing a lot

  4. Rocky Rocky

    Жаль, вчера я не мог присоединиться

    Žalʹ, včera ja ne mog prisoedinitʹsja

    That’s such a pity, yesterday I couldn't join you

Common questions

Quick answers about this lesson's grammar and vocabulary.

How does Russian past tense work?

Verb stem + л + gender ending. Я был (I was, male), Я была (female). Past agrees with subject's gender (singular).

Russian weather vocabulary?

Погода (weather), солнечно (sunny), пасмурно (cloudy), дождливо (rainy), снежно (snowy), жарко (hot), холодно (cold).

What does прекрасный mean?

'Wonderful / beautiful / splendid'. Adjective agreeing with noun's gender: прекрасная погода, прекрасный день.

Test yourself

Pick the English translation for each line from this lesson. Wrong answers are pulled from other Russian lessons.

4 quick questions on what you just heard.

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