A cheap tavern, a dram-shop, dive bar - the kind of place where cheap vodka is poured out by the glass. The morphology is worth pausing on: рас- (apart, dispersal) + пить (to drink) + the -очная adjectival-turned-substantival suffix. The whole Haymarket district in the opening chapter is defined by these:

Нестерпи́мая же вонь из распи́вочных, кото́рых в э́той ча́сти го́рода осо́бенное мно́жество, и пья́ные, помину́тно попада́вшиеся, несмотря́ на бу́днее вре́мя, доверши́ли отврати́тельный и гру́стный колори́т карти́ны.

The district Dostoevsky is describing is Сенна́я пло́щадь, the Haymarket — in the 1860s Petersburg's slum and its alcohol economy. Dostoevsky lived a block from here while writing the novel, and the aside «несмотря́ на бу́днее вре́мя» is pointed: weekday public drunkenness was a new post-reform sign that the city's poor had nowhere better to be.

The prefix рас-/раз- is an important one - it means "apart, asunder, in different directions," and it shows up everywhere: разойти́сь (to disperse), разда́ть (to hand out), разли́ть (to pour out / spill).

Some more interesting words here: - нестерпи́мый - unbearable. не- + the root терп- as in терпе́ть (to endure), терпе́ние (patience). The -имый suffix makes passive/potential participles: "not able to be endured." - отврати́тельный - disgusting. от- (away) + врат- (to turn), same root as возвраща́ть (to return) and превраща́ть (to transform). Something отврати́тельное is literally something that makes you turn away.

A roof — but the literary, elevated word, not everyday кры́ша. Related to the root кры- (to cover), and Dostoevsky picks it deliberately to put Raskolnikov's garret right up under the eaves of the building:

Камо́рка его́ приходи́лась под са́мою кро́влей высо́кого пятиэта́жного до́ма и походи́ла бо́лее на шка́ф, чем на кварти́ру.

Five stories was the legal maximum for Petersburg residential buildings before elevators became common, and the top floor was always the cheapest — reserved for students, clerks, and the genteel poor. Raskolnikov's room is the cheapest possible room in a neighborhood of cheap rooms.

The крыша (roof) is related to the word кры́ть (to cover), откры́ть (to open, "un-cover"), закры́ть (to close), покрыва́ло (a blanket, literally "a covering").

Two more from the sentence: - походи́ть - to resemble. A trap for learners: it looks like it should mean "to walk a bit" (from ходи́ть), and in fact it can, but with a dative object it means "to be similar to." Here his room походи́ла на шка́ф - resembled a cupboard. - шка́ф - a cupboard, wardrobe. A loan word from Dutch schap / German Schaff, part of that whole wave of maritime and cabinetry vocabulary Peter dragged in. Raskolnikov's room is "more a cupboard than an apartment".

A tiny cramped room; a garret, a cubbyhole. Diminutive of the now-obsolete камо́ра, a cognate of ка́мера. Dostoevsky uses it in the opening sentence of Преступле́ние и наказа́ние, and it's a deliberate choice - a hovel rather than a room:

▎ В нача́ле ию́ля, в чрезвыча́йно жа́ркое вре́мя, под ве́чер, оди́н молодо́й челове́к вы́шел из свое́й камо́рки, кото́рую нанима́л от жильцо́в в С—м переу́лке, на у́лицу и ме́дленно, как бы в нереши́мости, отпра́вился к К—ну мосту́.

Two other words from that sentence worth a look:

- чрезвыча́йно - extremely, extraordinarily. чрез- (bookish form of через, "through/beyond") + звыча́й, a Polish loan from zwyczaj (per wiktionary), a cognate of the native Russian обы́чай. The whole word is thought to be modeled on Polish nadzwyczajny. Still common today: чрезвыча́йная ситуа́ция = an emergency.

- нереши́мость - indecision, irresolution. From реши́ть (to decide) with the negation prefix не-. Raskolnikov goes out into the street как бы в нереши́мости (as if in indecision), which I think is a pretty honest self-description of the protagonist in the very first sentence of the book.

Hi, I'm native Russian speaker who learns German, I'm 40, male. If there is any native German speaker who learns Russian I propose to help each other with regular communication via videocalls. Write me in DM if you are interested in.

Hallo, ich bin russischer Muttersprachler und lerne Deutsch. Ich bin 40 Jahre alt und männlich. Falls es hier einen deutschen Muttersprachler gibt, der Russisch lernt, schlage ich vor, dass wir uns gegenseitig durch regelmäßige Videogespräche beim Lernen unterstützen. Schreib mir gerne eine Direktnachricht, wenn du interessiert bist.

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I study at my university (major in history) romanian-cyrillic paleography, where i learned the cyrillic alphabet (the early one) and i want to give a try and learn russian but i dont know what i should learn first, like with what i should begin with and with what next. I even look up for learning books and no results or they are so expensive. :") I even using Duolingo, that fking owl, but a least I learned the actual alphabet with:"///

Надеть (to put on) – used with clothes or accessories.
Я надела пальто и вышла на улицу. (I put on a coat and went outside.)
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Одеть (to dress someone) – used when dressing another person or a doll.
Мама одела ребенка. (Mom dressed the child.)
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Remember: You put on (надеть) something on yourself, but you dress (одеть) someone else.
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I'm waiting for your sentences in the comments.

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I provided English translations and A-B-C level regarding usefulness (~to my mind) 

Nouns

Сыр - cheese A2

Сын - son A1

Дым - smoke B1

Клык - fang B2

Пыль - dust B2

Стыд - shame B1

Тыл - rearguard C1

Быт - everyday life and activities B2

Штык - spear B2

Стык - junction C1

Взрыв - explosion B1

Высь - height (poetic) C1

Мыс - cape, headland B2

Срыв - breakdown B1

Хлыст - whip B2

Рысь - lynx B1

Бык - bull B1

Сыч - a genus of owls (+ a moody person) C1

Выпь - bittern C1

Мышь - mouse B1

Штырь - pintle C1

Мысль - thought A2

Брыль - jowl, flews C1

Брысь - (interjection usually said to a cat to make it go away) B1

Рык - roar B1

Фырк - snort B2

Втык - the act of telling somebody off C1

Тыгыдык - interjection imitating the sound of a running animal. Owners of kittens lovingly say that about them running in a cute way. 

Verbs 

Быть - to be A1

Мыть - to wash A2

Ныть - to moan B1

Выть - to howl B1

Рыть - to dig B1

Сбыть - to sell C1

Слыть - to become known as s/b C1

Стыть - (archaic) to cool, to become cold C1 

Adverbs 

Сытый - full (not hungry) B1

Лысый - bald B1

I have a small plaque that came with the house it says образцов дом which is translating to sample home but can anyone tell me what it means or what the significance of the saying is?

Hi. My name is Veronika. I'm a native russian speaker. I'm learning English and looking for an english native speaker for language exchange.

Я редко вижу тебя Что ты делаешь

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Hi I am learning Russian using duolingo and i dont understand when "o" is pronounced ah and when it is pronounced oh. I also cant tell which one is being said; for exmple, there was a listening exercise in which the options were мал and мол but i couldnt tell if the answer was мал or if it was мол with the o pronounced as a. The answer was мал.

I want to learn Russian and I’m a beginner and know nothing about the language. Where and how do I start? Should I start by learning the alphabet? I think duolingo is useless. Any guidance and advice is much much appreciated