CSI Perm

This is a quiz on identifying, and then translating, Russian verbal adjectives (participles) and verbal adverbs (deeprichastie, or 'gerunds'). It uses a news article about a murder investigation.

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Can it be который ?

Long-form verbal adjectives not only directly modify nouns, but can head a clause. They are semantically equal to another kind of clause: the который clause.

In this activity, you'll be asked to rewrite participial clauses into который clauses and vice versa.

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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.

Parts of Speech

Here's an exercise in identifying parts of speech, in an address given by Putin on New Year's Eve.

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