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D. Building New Words From One Initial Word
This is another useful exercise which helps in increasing your
vocabulary and
remembering correct spelling of many Russian words. I will give here only one example,
but recommend you to do similar exercises as often as you can.
Let's select some Russian word and then, using letters available in this
original word,
compose as many other actually existing Russian words as possible. But in order to keep
the total amount of newly composed words within some reason, I suggest to allow only
common singular nouns in the Nominative Grammar Case. We shall also reject all
diminutive or other non-generic forms of these nouns.
For the purpose of our example, I've selected word
'
одуванчик' (dandelion).
From this one word, I have managed to compose the following known to me generic
common singular nouns in the Nominative Grammar Case. However, I will not be
surprised if some Readers of this book offer a few additional words to my list.
If you have some friends who share your interest in the Russian language, you can
suggest them to take part in this game: each of you in turn will
be choosing some
Russian word (perhaps from a Russian-English or English- Russian Dictionary). Make
sure that everyone understands what kind of linguistic limitations they have during
composing new words from the selected one. For example, you can write on your piece
of paper word
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Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: