Время говорить по-русски!

ВЫ́ХОД [výhat] - Вы не зна́ете, где вы́ход? - Do you know where the exit is?   [vy ni znáit'e gd'e výhat] - Выход там. - The exit is there.   [výhat tam]

ватру́шка the tube So the winter is over, it's the first day of spring. Nevertheless I want to tell you about a winter activity that, to my knowledge, is new to Russia. I mean, I didn't even know the Russian word for it till yesterday. I'm talking about snow tubing. In Russian it's called "ката́ться на ватру́шках"! You are already familiar with the word "ката́ться" from the expressions like ката́ться на конька́х (to skate), ката́ться на лыжа́х (to ski), ката́ться на велосипе́де (to ride a bike) etc.  As for ватру́шка [vatrúshka] - it's a Russian curd tart. Inner tubes used for tubing look much like ватру́шки, just much bigger and not as delicious. Check it out yourself!  ватру́шка the curd tart

ВЕЧЕРИ́НКА [vichirínka] Вчера у нас была вечеринка! =  We had a party yesterday!

[fsigdá] Я всегда́ хожу́ на рабо́ту пешко́м. = I always walk to work. [ya fsigdá hazhú na rabótu pishkóm]

ВЫХОДНÓЙ (n, m) [vyhadnói] The word resembles something, doesn't it? Right, the word ВЫХОД = exit. Why? Because it's the day we go out! =) Look at the ending of this word. It's a noun, but the ending is like that of an adjective - ÓЙ. In each case form it will have an ending like an adjective - выходной - выходного - выходному, etc. The plural will be ВЫХОДНЫЕ (days off or weekend). Что вы делаете в выходные? = What do you do on weekends?

вода́ [vadá] вода́ с га́зом = sparkling water (literally, water with gas) вода́ без га́за = still water (literally, water without gas) вода́ из-под кра́на = tap water (literally, water from under a tap)

ВРЕ́МЯ (n, neuter) Remember those nouns whose gender is neuter but they have Я at the end? They have a special declination pattern. ВРЕМЯ is one of them. So mind how you decline it! Nom. (1) вре́мя Gen. (2) вре́мени Dat. (3) вре́мени Acc. (4) вре́мя Instr. (5) вре́менем Prep. (6) о вре́мени Вре́мя – де́ньги! = Time is money! У меня́ нет вре́мени. = I have no time.

ВЕСНА́ (noun, f) = spring   [visn а́ ] Пришла́ весна́! = Spring has come!  (Note that speaking about time, as in "in spring", we use another word - весно́й [visnói] = in spring, and it's an adverb).