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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Prefixes in Jeopardy

Yes, another review of Russian prefixes, this one in a Jeopardy! style game.

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Suffixes in Jeopardy

Here's a Jeopardy!-style game for Russian suffixes. It covers 10 each noun and adjective suffixes, and five verbal ones. Although it was designed as a review for our Morphology/Word-Building Course, there's no reason that anyone else couldn't use it.

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Subpar

This matching exercise deals with the prefix nedo-.

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What's the Infinitive?

In this quiz, you're provided with a conjugated verb, and asked for the infinitive. Pretty easy!

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Scrambled Idioms

Here are 20 Russian idioms, with an equivalent English meaning, all of which are scrambled. Your challenge: unjumble them!

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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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Calques

Many Russian prefixes can be translated using calques, Latinate prefixes such as re-, ex-, trans- etc.

This quiz is on matching prefixes with their calques.

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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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