How to Say IF in Russian | Russian Language
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You know i was thinking just that thought before i read your comment!
He is excellent in his knowledge of english idioms and comparisons between Russian and English language usage.
@@dougfox741 Indeed. I am just very impressed with his material and his ability to explain things so clearly.
I have trouble hearing the endings in Russian/Ukrainian. Not to take away from him but i tried another well known program...that days the word...then breaks down sound from the end of word to the beginning...it helps me.
By the way it is not the program that comes in A YELLOW package!
Fedor is my favorite Russian teacher hands down.
I’ve completed three Russian textbooks and have a Russian class once a week and in these 4 minutes you have explained these structures in a way that finally makes sense. Thank you and keep up the great work!
Best russian language explanations EVER. I understand right away.
Hello! :) That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
Your videos are really really helpful, thank you so much!!
I'm Japanese and I'm fairly fluent in English, so now I'm trying to learn Russian in English!
It's a pity that there are few Japanese textbooks to help me:,-(
But this is such a fun challenge for me!
My dream is to live in Russia someday❤️
I wish you all the best, Fedor :^))
Good luck!
スゲーочень хорошо!
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Thank you, I also wish you good luck in whatever goal you are aiming for!
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Спасибо большое!
если бы ты не сделал это видео, я бы не понимал в чем разница между "если" и "ли" ! 😆 спасибо большое!
Грамматика безупречна. Но я бы сказала проще - Если бы не это видео, не это твоё видео....
Да точно! Я вырос в Америке И никогда не пользовал слова ли, Ну уже я понимаю лучше спасибо 🙏
Понял* а между "если" а* "ли"
@@davidionashku2500 не использовал...
@@user-nn4sq3dt4c что вы имеете ввиду?
Short and to the point, and amazingly clear! When I attempt to simplify and solidify some basic doubts without being overwhelmed with grammar, I come to these videos. You are an awesome teacher Fedor!
Very clear. I learned this many years ago...back in the early 80s when I was a student. Thanks for your explanation. It's bringing back my memory and understanding.
Hello! That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
Fedor is backkkkk again with awesome new content 🔥🔥🔥Спасибо вам большое за видео 🙏
ЛИ is also used as an interrogative particle.
Готовы ли вы идти на жертвы ради победы?Are you ready to make sacrifices for the sake of victory?
Wow, people! (see previous comments). I am a linguist/grammarian in my own language and teacher of other languages, as well as a learner of Russian. I'm sure I neither want nor need expressions such as are spelled out below. For me, Fedor most certainly did not 'mess up' here - I understood clearly what he was saying. The 'indirect conditional' is clearly different from the direct one in Fedor's video - should he have called it that? maybe or maybe not. If he had, would I have understood it better? (если) Maybe we should ask him if he wants to make the video again with 'clearer' grammer rules (ли). Nope, I think I got the point...
I love grammar, but try very hard not to subject my students to over-complex explanations. Does it make sense? Yes it does.
@@silvamayflower Иногда без переусложнённых объяснений - никуда, учитель не может объяснить простыми словами и вынужден бомбить тему по хардкору. Sometimes it is impossible to explain in simple words and the teacher forced to bomb the topic on hardcore.
@@SpankyHam True enough, Spanky
ひとつひとつの動画が１０分以内で英語もロシア語も勉強できて嬉しいです！ありがとうございます😊
These are great especially if you're like me where you're an intermediate level speaker but rough around the edges. I'm glad you make these videos about the fine details of the language!
I'm happy that you've started plugging your class at the end of your vids
I understand the difference in Russian.
However, let me clarify a couple of things that you mentioned about English. Maybe it will help you better explain things in the future.
The conjunction "if" in English is always a 'conditional' word. What you refer to as 'a whether substitute' does not mean that it isn't a conditional situation. Let's take a look at what is a 'condition' grammatically.
In Linguistics, a condition is formed by a premise and a result. The main concept of a conditional sentence (of any type) is usually the result; the premise is usually the subordinate clause with "if" (usually called an If-clause). Conditional sentences, in any language, can be either plausible (or factual) or implausible (or hypothetical).
Example of plausible or factual condition:
If it rains, I stay at home (general condition)
If it rains tomorrow, I'll stay at home (specific condition)
Example of implausible or hypothetical conditions:
If it rained, I would stay at home (present/future hypothesis)
If it had rained, I would have stayed at home (past hypothesis)
However there can be sentences with mixed conditionals or indirect conditionals.
The "whether" phenomenon you mentioned is an "indirect conditional". You're probably wondering how come no one has ever mentioned this to you before. Believe me, this is stuff you need to take advanced courses for -- for some reason -- and yet it isn't that difficult to understand.
Nevertheless, in a statement like:
Ask Joe if he wants to eat now or later
We are expressing the fact that we need to ask Joe for a choice he has to make. This in English is also called an "optative aspect" (optative = having to do with making choices or decisions -- or the possibility of both).
Worded in some other way, the above sentence gives us two conditions indirectly (actually four different combinations are possible):
If Joe wants to eat now, then I'm setting the table for him.
If Joe wants to eat later, then I'll put the food in the fridge.
If Joe wanted to eat now, I would set the table for him.
If Joe wanted to eat later, I would put the food in the fridge.
You see? Even if the sentence above doesn't read as a direct condition, it is still a condition -- indirectly. Of course, the resulting and underlying conditional sentences can be stated as plausible or implausibile as the speaker or writer wishes.
I hope this helps. I find your videos really interesting!!!!
yes. I think Fedor messed up a bit his explanation (although I still appreciate the video a lot!). As you rightly say, all mentioned sentences using 'if' are conditional, and the key point deciding that ли should be used instead of если is that the sentences with ли are *indirect* sentences. For example:
спроси у него, не забыл ли он чего-нибудь / ask him if he hasn't forgotten anything
посмотри, закрыта ли дверь / look if the door is closed
я не знаю, должен ли я ему верить / I don't know if I should believe him
не знаю, придёт ли он
/ I don't know if he'll come
он спросил, не устал ли я / he asked if I was tired
All these are indirect questions (the corresponding direct ones would be: is the door closed? should I believe him? will he come? was I tired?)
@@luckyluckydog123 Ok. It looks like your level of Russian is bounds and leaps higher than mine. I was not commenting on his Russian explanation but merely trying to provide for him English knowledge that would enable him to explain Russian better while speaking my language. That is all.
The hell, where do you even learn stuff like that? English is my second language and it looks like I've always used the "if" correctly by just copying how other people use it but I never knew it had this much information underneath it.
@@syneyes5160 I know, right? I sort of had the luck to take the right Linguistics courses in College. I had this professor who knew the English language , as it was taught in the "olden days". My world has never been the same. Still, some of this information is on Wikipedia, too.
Thank you for your consistency!
Thank you for the upload you’re the best! 😄
Thank you for the help! I was struggling with this for a while, you explained it clearly and well.
you always make things understandable. this lesson was very clear. you are the best russian teacher on youtube. in fact your videos are better than a live class. i've taken some and i quit when i discovered your channel because you made it so much easier to learn. thank you.
Брат, I always come back to your videos for these small doubts, Большое спасибоо 🙏🏻
I understood it like: если for a two parted sentence, which are depending from another or giving the other half a reason (it explains "why") and ли for a two parted sentence with no specific dependence.
Thank you, that was very helpful. One thing that initiallly threw me with "ли" is how it affects the word order, so you might want to say something about that. The explanation I found the most helpful was this:
1. "ли" arrives at the front of the sentence. 👋
2. "ли" looks for the verb. 👀
3. "ли" pulls the verb out of out of the sentence and judo flips it to the first place. 🥋💪⏮
4. The other words in the sentence politely pretend that nothing happened. 😮
so happy i found your channel
Wow, I've been throwing если left and right, I had no idea that ли works like that, thanks a bunch.
Very clear, thanks.
Thank you Fidor For another amazing Russian language Video...l love them
Thank you so much. You explained it so easy to understand
Hello! That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
If it wasn't because of you i couldn't have gone from text books to actual russian, this channel is gold
Ты мне очень помогаешь в русском грамматике, спасибо
Здравствуйте! That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
thank you
I'm spanish and I'm impressed by how easy it is to understand your explanations about how russian language works...in english haha
Очень полезный, спасибо! What would you think of showing "one day" in the 30 day speaking challenge from a student? I've thought about doing these too many times but not joined because I'm worried about finding enough time every day for a month, not sure if my computing equipment is up to the task, and worried it might all be so far beyond my skills that it might not be useful.
Спасибо!
Can u make a vid about the prepositions with verbs and how it changes the tense ❤
спасибо
Hello! :) That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
In Serbian we have AKO that means if. But we use the words DA LI in special cases too.
I think i got it 👍😄. In german it would be
если - falls
ли - ob
Where are the german viewers ? Thank you Fedor you are great 🇷🇺❤️👍
Hello! :) That's so great that you like the russian language! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful and interesting there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
When will the next camp start? I am struggling with how letter sounds are combined and make different sounds 🤦🏻♂️
Please do то/том also
Вы можете сделать видео о 'как по русский 'will have to и had to'? Спасибо заранее 🤚
Не мог не вспомнить конструкцию "если бы, да кабы" :)
Please make a video "How to use (Ь)"
A good way to remember (for me) is with the song: если ты меня не любишь 💔
Old video but I was also wondering how "есть ли" differs. I've read online that естли used to be a contraction of есть ли but that it's taken on it's own meaning in modern Russian.
Vou falar na minha língua materna mesmo porque o assunto é meio burocrático: Eu fui pesquisar por viajens pra Moscou e só encontrei aviões partindo do dia 8 e voltando dia 12. Mas 4 dias é muito pouco pô, eu queria mesmo era no mínimo uns 20, como eu faço??
I singed up in be fluent russian website... but class didn't started yet.. i hope you will help me...
so, basically "ли" is used when you make a question in the presente tense that can be answered with "yes" or "no" ?
You can ask in the past tense too,but not in the future.
А был ЛИ ты на игре? Я тебя не видел.
About answers is correct.
@@user-ri1li4eo4m ohhh okay, thank you so much )))
Only in this meaning. More often you would hear it - не так ли (isn't it?)
Do you ever use "whether or not" as something like "ли или нет"? Is that just something completely different?
Yeah! In that sentence, Спроси у него, хочет ли он есть. We can say " Спроси у него, хочет он есть или нет". Ли is not needed there.
фидор, почему ты говоришь «приедем» и не «приходим» в первое предложение? спасибо
Hey, I'm Croatian and learning Russian. Similar language but different , if that makes sense hehehe
I have a lost of problem reading text that has no stresses (when O is O and O is A and things like that). Are there any rules that I can follow when reading?
the letter Ё is always under stress
Most of the stresses and how they sometimes jump in words in different situations Russians learning by heart.
I understood what you explained, but one example you used puzzled me. "Я позвонил узнать" - shouldn't it be a preposition here, like "Я позвонил для узнать"?
Можно использовать "чтобы". А можно и не использовать.
Я позвонил узнать как дела.
Я позвонил чтобы узнать как дела.
Я позвонил для того чтобы узнать как твои дела. - this is a bit cumbersome option
Can anyone give recommendations of russian tv shows that are available on youtube and are relativly simple for new learners to follow?
Привет, even in TV series just about daily life from 30 to 50% of speech is idioms and phrases and individual words used in a figurative sense. So it won't be super easy. Just try to find a series of your favorite genre and watch it. With practice, listening comprehension will become better.
Is ёлки-палки a way of expressing disbelief, or what way do I use it?
very widely used expression - anger, bewilderment, joy, annoyance, surprise
Если с вами произошла внезапная неприятность можете смело сказать - "Ёлки-палки, что ж так невезёт".
@@SpankyHam Thanks!
Man every time I try to learn a language I go watch movies and series (of curse in which people talk with that language ) so how about making a video of the best Russian series and movies .
Start with Tarkovski's movies. Really amazing pieces...
@@saulrodrigues4238 ok dude . thanks 😇
I don't have many people to practice speaking Russian so it creates s problem in learning vocabulary do you have any suggestions I could try?
Listen to songs in Russian. If you tell me what music genres you like. I could give you some advice to improve your vocabulary
@@user-wb6lx8ep3t honestly that's all I listen to nowadays 😁😁 "когда мы были на вои́не", "тальяночка", "Катюша", "яблочко" are few to list and I usually read their lyrics and try to sing along with it.
@@vishalk4647 Катюша has few useful words for a rus language learner.
I learned the difficult word neighbor this way))
@@user-wb6lx8ep3t it's honestly one of my favourite song and I've learnt many words from them but a lot of words are similar toy mother tongue soniya easy.
@@vishalk4647 Поплыли туманы на рекой или про степного сизого орла I said that last time in the army)))) it is better to learn modern phrases))
You are very handsome Fedor
This will be difficult to memorize and absorb the language without a dictionary to better enhance your vocabulary
Ты забыл сказать, что есть разделительный союз «ли» или «то ли»:
Я ли плохо говорила, ты ли плохо слушала, но мы друг друга недопоняли.
То ли пчела пролетела, то ли мне показалось.
Второй пример (с пчелой) правильный. А вот первый - нет. Здесь следует сказать вот так: То ли я плохо объясняла то ли ты плохо слушала, но мы друг друга недопоняли. If you want an example with Я ли, I can suggest you the following. "Я ли тебе не говорила, что так никогда не надо делать. Но ты меня все равно не послушал".
jolevangelista Если бы вы перевели последнее предложение, я бы его поймал. Можно ли?
John Collins “I told you that you should never do this, right? But you didn't listen to me.”
P.S. Instead of “я бы его поймал” you should say “я бы его понял”
@@alexsark4985 либо уловил смысл если хочется сохранить оттенок слова поймал
скажи "если или ли" три раза быстро лол
Если я еду в школу, она будет там.
Correct?
На велосипеде?
By bike?
@@user-ym4ok2qt9n Да 😃 потому у меня есть большой опыт 🚲
@@worty32 Maybe "в школу"? and not "в школе"
@@user-ym4ok2qt9n my mistake :0
В школу , and who’s she ? 😋
ЕСЛИ научиш кунг фу ,ты брюс ЛИ
Если он даёт мне деньги, то я могу сделать это.
Если ты меня не любишь то я тоже нет🥺
Если ты меня не любишь, тогда я тебя тоже
скажи мне если тебе холодно
im watching this as im learning czech
im weird
It is also a Slavic language with similar rules. I am not sure about ли though
так что ли?
Зачем я это смотрю, если это мой по сути почти родной язык.. (я украинка)
Ли я здесь.
You can never start sentence from Ли. You probably meant - Здесь ли я?
sounds like Bruce Lee I'm here :)
Если бы я был в Москве, то увидел бы Путина