Basic Russian Vocabulary · Ба́зовая ле́ксика
The building blocks of Russian — pronouns, numbers, question words, everyday verbs and more. English · Russian · notes. And some good news: the Cyrillic alphabet can be learned in a day, Russian has no articles (no a/the to agonize over), and its famously free word order means that once you know the words, almost any way you arrange them works.
🎓 Designed to be studied alongside the two courses and the marathons
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📖 Every Russian word here carries its stress mark (ударе́ние), just like in good textbooks and dictionaries. Russians don’t write the marks — but you need them: stress is unpredictable, and an unstressed о sounds like a (молоко́ ≈ “malako”). When typing in practice you may leave the marks out.
Building blocks Осно́вы
The skeleton of every sentence: who, which verb, how many — and the words that tie it all together.
PronounsМестоиме́ния8 wordsEssential VerbsРаспространённые глаго́лы18 wordsNumbersЧи́сла22 wordsQuestion WordsВопро́сы8 wordsConnectorsСвя́зки18 words
Everyday essentials Ка́ждый день
The words you will meet every single day, from the very first lesson.
Greetings & PolitenessПриве́тствия и ве́жливость20 wordsTime & DaysВре́мя и дни19 wordsColorsЦвета́11 wordsFamilyСемья́16 wordsFood & DrinkЕда́ и напи́тки17 wordsPlacesМеста́15 wordsBasic AdjectivesОсновны́е прилага́тельные19 words
Around town and at home В го́роде и до́ма
Shopping, real food, your own four walls — and the way there.
FruitsФру́кты19 wordsVegetablesО́вощи19 wordsDishesБлю́да19 wordsClothingОде́жда20 wordsThe HouseДом20 wordsDirectionsНаправле́ния и ориента́ция20 words
People and the world Лю́ди и мир
The body, appearance, animals, the weather — and what people do for a living.