Fore-wards

This quiz deals with the prefix пред-.

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Colors of the world (IV)

In this matching game, the Ukrainian color word is paired with something that is that color. Note that the colors are all in masculine, so they won't necessarily match the other word in gender!

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Colors of the world (III)

This matching game pairs a Ukrainian color word with the English name of something that is that color.

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Colors of the world (II)

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with a word naming something that is that color...

Note that all the color words are in masculine, so they won't necessarily match in gender!

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Colors of the world (I)

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with an English word naming something that is that color...

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Russian Morphology Diagnostic

Though this was written for our RUSS2102 review course, anyone's free to take it. Just don't enter your name!

The quiz is on the basics of morphology: using the form of a word to predict its part of speech or its gender, and matching up words that share a root.

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Making new words with suffixes

Here's another matching exercise on suffixes. In this one, you're given a root and a meaning for a new word to be made from it (for instance, дум: thoughtful) and you pick the right suffix (which would be чив, in this case).

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Fleeting Vowels

Here are two activities you can do to practice identifying fleeting vowels in Russian words. One is a matching game, and the other is concentration.

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Subpar

This matching exercise deals with the prefix nedo-.

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Suffixes and Meanings

Here is a set of activities for suffixes - noun, adjective, and verb - and their meanings. You can do flashcards, concentration, or a matching exercise.

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Compounds with Quantities

This quiz deals with Russian compounds that contain numbers and quantifiers.

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Pri-paired

This quiz is on the prefix при-; it consists of matching nouns, adjectives, verbs, and phrases with their English counterparts in ad-.

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Bad Words

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for bad character traits.

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Good Words

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for a set of words for good character traits.

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Participial Adjectives

This one is a matching exercise on, yes, Russian Participial Adjectives: participles used as attributive modifiers. Not long - 24 in all.

Aspect Pairs

Here some exercises on matching aspectual pairs of verbs. You can do matching, concentration, or flashcards.

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Three Meanings of O

This quiz is a matching exercise for the prefix о- (об-) - nouns and verbs.

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Putin's New Year Speech

Here are a number of activities - flashcards, matching, and concentration, using terms and idioms from Putin's New Year's speech.

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Russian holidays

This is a matching game, with official "day off" and popular "work day" holidays in Russia. You can play it over and over, as each time you'll get a new set of eight dates and days to match.

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Gender in Russian

This is a pretty simple choosing exercise - of three choices, which goes with which subject?

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