10 Russian verbs that even the most literate people pronounce incorrectly

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The question of stress in verbs is always very painful, especially when it comes to words that are familiar to us. Well, how to believe that a verb familiar to us, which we hear all our lives from others with one stress, in fact, needs to be pronounced differently. Moreover, in the correct version, it seems to us, sounds strange and even dissonant. But you can't argue with the rules of the Russian language. Here are just a few examples of verbs that many people mispronounce.

Often in the phrase "make the job easier" people put stress on the first syllable - apparently thinking that the test word for this verb is "easier." However, it is not. The stress should be on the letter "I". The same happens when this verb is combined with all proper nouns in the present and future tense: "I will make it easier", "they will make it easier", "he made it easier", "they made it easier". None of these words emphasize the root "light". To remember where to stress it is enough to replace the word "lighten" with the synonym "simplify". We don't say simplify!

If you need to open a bottle of wine and at the same time say that you are going to "uncork" it, this will be wrong. Because the stress in this word is on the second syllable. It is easy to remember this rule if you remember Pushkin: "He used to say to me:" Listen, brother Salieri, How black thoughts will come to you, Uncork a bottle of champagne Or read "The Marriage of Figaro" ".

Saying "the lesson has begun" or "the film has begun", many make a common mistake when they pronounce the verb with an emphasis on the first syllable - "started". In the late 1980s, there was a parody of the speech of Mikhail Gorbachev, who, as you know, often confused the stress: "It's time to start all this in order to deepen it - and then everything will be shaped." However, to say “started” is the same bad form. In order not to look like a parody hero, it is better to follow the orthoepic norm of the Russian literary language and pronounce the verb "began" competently - with an emphasis on "I".

There are bad people who always strive to vulgarize everything, and of course, this is not good. But if you decide to make a remark to such a person, do not be mistaken in the stress: in the word "vulgarize" it falls on the second syllable. You can remember this by the adjective "vulgar".

The topic of neighborhood repairs and the sounds of a punch on an early Saturday morning is relevant to many. You can indignantly knock on the battery with a stick. Sometimes it helps. But to say at the same time: "They're drilling again" is undesirable. After all, the indefinite form of this verb is "to drill". This means that the neighbors are drilling.

If cheese stuck in the refrigerator gets moldy, many of us for some reason say that it is moldy. " And they are deeply mistaken. No, there is no need to doubt that it is time to throw the product away. You just have to say "got swollen." Hint, if you forget: the stress in this verb is put in the same way as in the word "mold". Accordingly, if stored improperly, the products “grow moldy”.

One of the most common mistakes in stress concerns the verb "indulges". Very often you can hear “the child is petting”, “I don’t smoke, but only sometimes I am.”However, in the colloquial word "indulge", as well as in other related words - for example, "spoiled", "indulge", "indulge in", etc. - the stress never falls on the first syllable. So the kid does not pamper, but indulges. And his parents did not spoil him at all, but spoiled Ali.

Agree, not a very pleasant experience - filling a tooth. The sound of a drill is like iron on glass. Literate people feel about the same when they hear the phrase "fill a tooth" with an emphasis on "and". The fact is that according to the rules you need to say "seal". Although the incorrect pronunciation of this verb is very common both among doctors and among patients.

This will probably surprise many people, but in the word "turn on" the stress should be placed on the last syllable. So, we must say “he will turn on the light”, “we will turn on the light”, “they will turn on the light” and so on. Unusual, of course, but these are the rules.

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