The mysterious languages of the East still excite the minds of the public, especially the harmonious Persian language, in which the greatest poets of antiquity wrote their poems. The oldest Persian dialect is included in the Iranian group of languages, the number of speakers of which reaches about 200 million. Who are they, these eastern people who are part of the Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family? Details in this article
Languages 2024, September
Sentence is the most significant unit in one of the branches of linguistics - syntax. Scientists - syntaxists divide all sentences into two types - complex and simple sentences. All about simple sentences read on
The use of articles in English is an excellent indicator of the speaker's speech literacy, so do not neglect such a seemingly insignificant part of learning a language. Often the placement of articles (or lack of them) is determined using simple rules, but there are exceptions that you just need to remember
Today, the word "adversity", the meaning of which can be defined as "misfortune, trouble or failure", is somewhat outdated. Most often this noun is used in poems and, as a rule, in the plural. For example, in congratulatory lines for a birthday: “Let the years fly like birds, let all adversity pass you by”
To emphasize that the atmosphere in any team depends on the personality and behavior of the leader, they say the well-known phrase: "The fish rots from the head." The proverb exists not only in Russian, but also in almost all languages of the world
Even a schoolboy knows what a hybrid is. But when it comes to horticulture, it becomes not entirely clear whether hybrids are good or bad? Many beginners mistakenly believe that hybrid cucumber seeds are a he alth hazard. But it's not like that at all
Historians and linguists claim that the branches of the Slavs still use a lot of charmed or magic words that have a sacred meaning. The topic of our article was the mysterious word "chur", which has firmly entered our lives. What does it mean? And in what context is it applied?
"Good" has many synonyms, because the adjective means very different things. But we will not get lost in this forest of meanings and guide the reader through it. Substitutions are important, but they need to be matched to something. Therefore, we will highlight the meaning of the adjective and select appropriate sentences for it that will help to understand the meaning of all the meanings of a multifaceted word
Each of the existing parts of speech has its own characteristics. All of them are divided into groups by value, so their features are completely different. Some parts of speech help to compare one thing or quality with another. Thanks to this, categories such as comparative and superlative degrees appeared. What they are, we will understand in more detail in our article
The article discusses the concept of phraseological turnover on specific examples of its use in poetic speech
Many people know that Italian, English and French are recognized as official in Switzerland. However, not everyone has heard that there is a fourth one. This is a rare language, so finding a teacher in language centers can be difficult. There are few native speakers, but they do exist. Therefore, you can study the language in the region of its distribution
French-speaking countries include not only countries in which the Voltaire language is recognized as official, but also those in which most of the inhabitants speak French. There are nine such states in the world. In addition, there are countries where French is the official language only in certain regions. The article provides a complete list of French-speaking countries
The Romance language group is a group of related languages that originates from Latin and forms a subgroup of the Italian branch of the Indo-European language family. The main languages of the family are French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Moldovan, Romanian and others
Just imagine for a moment that there are no words in Russian that are close in meaning. For example, there would be only a neutral verb "to go", and that's it. So try after that to tell the reader how the person walked: he trudged, wandered or paced. It is precisely in order to avoid repetitions of the same word, in order to be able to express emotions or characterize a phenomenon, that there are antonyms and synonyms in our language. They will be discussed
If you read the word "forest" in the text without definitions, you will never understand what it means. After all, it can be coniferous, deciduous or mixed, winter, spring, summer or autumn. The Russian language is great. A qualitative adjective is a direct confirmation of this. In order to vividly and accurately represent any picture, we need this wonderful part of speech
Despite the fact that children begin to study the concept of "related words" already in the first grade, high school students do not feel very confident when completing assignments for the selection of related words
In order to diversify our speech, to make it even more clean, beautiful and correct, we just need homogeneous members of the sentence. They help decorate the text of any style accessory. The most important thing is to know the rules for punctuation with homogeneous members
The article gives a brief description of inversion as a linguistic phenomenon in speech style. Examples of Russian and English inversion are given
We know that there is such a part of speech as the numeral. What does she mean? In fact, everything is quite simple: from the name itself, you can understand that these words are responsible for writing numbers and numbers using Russian letters
Increasingly, the word "creativity" can be seen in the requirements for candidates for a particular position. But what does that mean? And where can I get this quality? It can be developed, and in the simplest way
Modal verbs "can", "could", "must", "may" in English operate according to separate rules and are an important part of grammar and colloquial speech. Let's take a closer look at this issue
When everyone is working and there is no time to stop to once again praise the responsible employee for a successful negotiation or an impeccably laid asph alt, this is not normal. It is necessary to carve out a couple of minutes to celebrate the achievements of the workers! So you inspire them to further labor exploits
Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasian language family, which has been spoken in Mesopotamia since at least the 3rd millennium BC. and up to the beginning of our era
What words are numerals? What question does the numeral answer? How is the number inclined? The answers to these and other questions related to the definition of the name of the numeral are given in the text of the article
A compound verbal predicate is a predicate containing: an auxiliary part, which is an auxiliary verb (conjugated form), expressing the grammatical meaning of the predicate (mood, tense); the main part is the indefinite form of the verb, which expresses its meaning from the lexical side
This article explains what a verbal noun is. Explains how it can be generated. The reasons for using this part of speech are listed. Explains why an excess of verbal nouns makes a sentence cumbersome and complex
This article will focus on the pronunciation of German words. The article provides answers to questions regarding the difficulty of learning a language, etc
This article will focus on auxiliary verbs in English. The article provides detailed information about the rules for the use of auxiliary verbs
This article provides information on how English words are read correctly, reading rules are detailed, etc
In English, as you know, there are four types of verbs: auxiliary, semantic, verbs that connect the subject with the object, and modal. The latter are used extremely frequently in a huge number of languages. Their role is unspeakably important in English, German and other languages. Therefore, understanding this topic is very important
The article provides information about Chinese writing, about the Chinese language system. The Chinese numeral system is also described in detail
The article describes in detail the perfect tenses of the English language, their application, structure, features
In English, there are a huge number of different suffixes that have different meanings, but the article shows the most used of them
The article reveals the use of indirect and direct speech in Russian. The rules and the importance of understanding this topic are described
Everyone knows that the world is divided into living and non-living things. But it is far from immediately possible to separate correctly animate and inanimate objects - it turns out that intuition in this matter is an unreliable assistant. How is this category of nouns determined and how to avoid mistakes? Let's try to figure it out
Consider a word that is strongly associated with the official language, but is used by everyone, so it should not be neglected. In addition, the language of papers is the “dialect” that everyone should master. Let's start small - with the definition of the noun "stage", this is what occupies us today
A lot of theoretical material in English textbooks is devoted to distinguishing between Past Simple/Past Continuous verb tenses. Exercise, however, leaves much to be desired. Readers are presented with a short collection of sentences for translation into English, taking into account the tense of verbs
One day, three careless friends were late to a party. Seeing that the owner was offended, one of them said: "Do not be offended," the second added: "Do not pout," and the third said: "Do not be upset." Have you noticed that the meanings of these words are quite close? In Russian, there are many words with the same or almost the same meaning. Remember what they are called?
Do you often hear the verb "to see"? It is important. After all, that's what we're going to look at today. Meaning and suggestions appear in the program. On the other hand, whether the reader has experience in this regard or not is not so important. In the course of the story, the truth will still be found
In different contexts and meanings, the adjective "wonderful" can be used, the experience of not a scientist, but a native speaker insists on this. The meaning can be direct, or it can be ironic when the adjective is saturated with negative content. Consider the origin of a noun related to an adjective, as well as the meaning itself