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    Word order Greetings. Could anyone please explain, is there any difference (or even sense, haha) in the following sentences, and if it is, when should I use the first one, and when the second? 1) Morgen kann ich nicht kommen, weil nach Moskau ich fahre. 2) Ich kann morgen nich kommen, weil ich nach Moskau fahre. (I can't come tomorrow because I'm going to Moscow.) Thanks in advance.
    September 26, 2012
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    Greetings! It's not actually a geographical place, rather an idiomatic thing, which is basically used when someone wants to say that things go terribly wrong, that there's no chances to fix it, and we're all doomed, in somewhat ironical way. For example, "Мир катится в тартарары" means something like "The world is being screwed up". Perhaps there's also a correlation with Tartarus, the place like hell in Greek mythology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus - but I'm not sure.
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    September 21, 2012
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    Well, that's the most effective way to "impress" a woman with poor manners and spelling. In fact, it's a direct insult. Literally it means "Wouldn't you go fuck yourself?" or "Why don't you just go fuck yourself already?".
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    September 20, 2012
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    Hi there! Although there's no much difference, "заканчиваться" is used mostly when describing some process, and "кончаться" is more about quantity. Some examples: Заканчиваться: The movie is going to end in five minutes. Фильм заканчивается через пять минут. The lecture is over, at last. Лекция закончилась, наконец. Кончаться: I'm running out of money. У меня кончаются деньги. Oh no, we're out of coffee! О нет, у нас кончился кофе! And so on... But as already mentioned by the others, both those verbs are pretty similar and can be interchanged.
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    September 20, 2012
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