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The system of Russian forms of addressing is used in Russian languages to indicate relative social status and the degree of respect between speakers. Typical language for this includes using certain parts of a person's full name, name suffixes , and honorific plural , as well as various titles and ranks.
In fact, and you know that, in Russian there is no way to discriminate [e] and [ɛ] in writing, so they as well could not do this either, writing е (Cyrillic) would not do the trick (note е(н)тот, that is before a hard consonant as well). The pronunciation with prosthetic [j-] (and further epenthetic [-n-]) and hence writing е(н)т- has ...
The list of Russian language topics stores articles on grammar and other language-related topics that discuss (or should discuss) peculiarities of the Russian language (as well as of other languages) or provide examples from Russian language for these topics. The list complements the Category:Russian language and does not overlap with it.
Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family.It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries.
The Russian past tense is gender specific: –л for masculine singular subjects, –ла for feminine singular subjects, –ло for neuter singular subjects, and –ли for plural subjects. This gender specificity applies to all persons; thus, to say "I slept", a male speaker would say я спал, while a female speaker would say я спалá.
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The 24-hour notation is used in writing, with a colon as the standardised and recommended separator (e.g. “ 9:07 ”). Sometimes full stop is used as a separator (e.g. 9.07), or (in handwritten text) the minutes may be written as superscript and underlined (e.g. 9 07).