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Family: review
Russian A1 · Unit 7
GoalMix everything: family words, my and your, names and ages.
New words
друг (drug) · friend (boy, man)подру́га (podrúga) · friend (girl, woman)наш (nash) · our (with брат)на́ша (násha) · our (with сестра́)на́ши (náshi) · our (with plurals)
Explanation
A friend is друг (a boy) or подру́га (a girl); the plural of друг is друзья́. The word for “our” follows the same three-part pattern as “my”: наш брат, на́ша семья́, на́ши роди́тели. In a text, first say who the person is, then the name and the age. Check each “my” and “your” against the word it goes with: man’s word, woman’s word or plural. Do not forget the stress mark on every word.
| Masculine | Feminine | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| мой друг | моя́ подру́га | мои́ друзья́ |
| наш брат | на́ша семья́ | на́ши роди́тели |
| твой дя́дя | твоя́ тётя | твои́ де́ти |
Worked examples
Ма́ша
Э́то на́ша семья́. Э́то мои́ роди́тели.
Анва́р
А э́то кто?
Ма́ша
Э́то мой брат. Его́ зову́т Ди́ма.
Two friends: друг and подру́га.
Our parents, our grandmother, our family. Listen.
Class activity
Write a short text, six or seven lines, about your family or an imaginary family: who is in it, their names, their ages and what each person does (студе́нт, студе́нтка). Read the text aloud, then listen to a friend read their text and ask one question about it.
Practice
1
Press Listen. Is it his or her, and who is it?
…
“His son”: Его́ сын (yevó syn).
2
Choose наш or на́ша: … семья́.
на́ша семья́.
3
Read aloud and translate.
“My parents and my grandmother.”
4
Say “her friend” (a girl) in Russian.
её подру́га.
5
Say: “This is our family” and show the picture.
Э́то на́ша семья́.