"Shinut" is a colloquial word that can often be found in the direct speech of literary heroes of classical Russian works, for example, A. S. Pushkin, F. M. Dostoevsky, M. A. Bulgakov. What does it mean, how is it spelled and conjugated?
Meaning
The most common meaning of the perfective verb "to disappear" is an abyss, to disappear without a trace. In some cases, the closest synonyms to it are the words "perish" or "die".
Spelling and grammatical forms of the word
The greatest difficulty is usually caused by writing the first letter ("to disappear" or "to disappear"), which in oral speech is pronounced loudly, like the sound "z". "С-" is a prefix, since there is a rarely used paired verb "to bend" with an imperfect form.
There is no prefix "z-" in Russian, so the choice of the consonant "s" is obvious.
The second common misspelling occurs in the ending of a verb in the future tense."To perish" ends in "-ut", which means it belongs to the first conjugation. Therefore, the correct vowel in the ending is "e" (you will perish, perish, etc.).
Like all perfective verbs, "to disappear" also has past tense forms - disappeared, disappeared, and is not used in the present tense.
Derivative participles and gerunds - perished and perished respectively.
Examples of usage
The word is found in the story "The Captain's Daughter" by Pushkin:
…neither Prussian bayonets nor Turkish bullets touched you; not in a fair fight did you lay down your stomach, but disappeared from a runaway convict!
Here "perish" is the same as "perish", "be killed".
And in Bulgakov's "Moscow scenes" you can find a quote in which it means "disappear".
…the library seemed to have disappeared - the devil himself would not have found a way into it.
In some cases, especially in poetry, both verbs "abyss" and "die" describe equally well the meaning of the word "perish". So, I. A. Brodsky in the poem "Isaac and Abraham" uses the following series of contextual synonyms:
…then they must really die, disappearing, vanishing, sinking, vanishing.
Although the word "perish" is relatively rare in everyday speech today, it is not true to consider it obsolete.
