Hi Arnaud! Just to add, it is considered to be an adverb, and it has a subjunctive particle embedded - "бы". It can be roughly translated as "would". As a whole, it is something like "whatever", "anything", and such. Cheers!

It's not easy to explain without a demonstration, but I'll try. I'm not sure about your background in Russian either, some of the terms might be obscure (let me know if this is the case, I'll try to explain in some other way) You get something like [s'in'üjü] синюю. Apostrophes indicate the soft consonants. I'm sure you know about reduction of unstressed vowels in Russian. - the first vowel [и] is stressed, so it's a full vowel - the second vowel (u) is unstressed, so it's shorter and not as articulated as the first one. It is very close to the German ü. - j is a very subtle, not as pronounced is in words like йод [йот] (iodine), or ёлка [йолкΛ] (fir tree) - the last vowel is reduced ü as well, so it is not very rounded and very short. Hope this helps!

Hi Farid! As an addition to what's been said. It is idiomatic. стоить - to be worth It is the same word as in "сколько стоит?", which literally means "how much is it worth?" Now let's consider the idiomatic meaning: "вам\тебе не стоит" is a polite recommendation, "тебе не стоит курить" ~ you shouldn't smoke (lit. "it's not worth for you to smoke") "вам не стоит обращаться в посольство" ~ formal way to say "don't do it" (lit. it's not worth for you to go to the embassy) If I translate this into a human language, it will be something like "we're not going to consider your case if you go to the embassy before this date". Hope this helps!

It depends what you want to say. if you're asking time, you don't need it: - Сколько времени? - Пятнадцать минут пятого. If you're asking when something is happening, you do need it: - Когда начинаетс кино? - В пятнадцать минут пятого What is your textbook called? I'm really curious!

каков - таков - short adjectives, always predicative какой - какая - full adjectives, attributive on top of that, каков - таков are considered archaic. They are mostly used in idiomatic expressions: - каков нахал! - what a jerk! - каков поп таков и приход ~ Jack is as good as his master - и был таков ~ and that was the last we saw of him - такова жизнь ~ so goes the world, c'est la vie Sometimes it is used in formal contexts: Сегодня положение дел таково, что у людей совершенно нет времени на поддержание своего здоровья. - Nowadays life is such (hard/busy implied) that people have no time to sustain their health. Note, it's predicative here. This is very dry and formal, people rarely talk like this (maybe in formal settings, business meetings, government sessions, etc. Жизнь сейчас такая насыщенная, что у людей нет времени на поддержание своего здоровья. - Nowadays life is so busy, that people have no time to sustain their health.

Thank you Dean! Wrote you a message.

Thank you Hassan, didn't know about this!