Colloquial Russian

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Unit 15: The theatre 221


Упражне�ние 7


Make up new sentences combining the information from the two sen-
tences given.


For example:
Ива�ну 7 лет. Ма�ше 6 лет. Ива�н ста�рше Ма�ши нa оди�н год.
Mа�шa моло�же Ива�на на оди�н год.

1 Бopи�cy 8 лет. Ка�те 5 лет.
2 Ма�ше 6 лет. Ви�ктору 4 го�да.
3 Ната�ше 12 лет. Серге�ю 7 лет.
4 Bи�ктору 29 лет. Тама�ре 25 лет.
5 Отцу� 50 лет. Ма�тери 42 го�да.


Котo�pый


Котo�pый ‘who/whom’, ‘which’ or ‘that’ is the relative pronoun used to
introduce an adjectival clause which describes a noun in the preceding
clause:


Я зна�ю стyде�нткy, кото�рая у�чится в МГУ
‘I know a female student who is studying at Moscow University’.

Кото�pый declines like a hard adjective. The gender and number of
кото�рый depends on the gender and number of the noun to which it
refers. In the example above, кото�рая refers to студе�нтку and so is in
the feminine singular. The case of кото�рый depends on its own role in
the adjectival clause. In the above example, it is the subject of the verb
у�чится and so is in the nominative.


Examples:
Э�тo журна�л, o кото�pом я вам говори�ла
‘This is the journal that I was telling you about’.
Пи�тер Грин – бизнесме�н, с кото�рым Ма�pина
познако�милась в самолёте
‘Peter Green is the businessman with whom Marina became
acquainted on the plane’.
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