501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged (Barrons) [Paperback]

Thomas R. Beyer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0812046625 | ISBN-13: 978-0812046625 | Publication Date: March 1992

For the student of Russian or the traveler who needs a more comprehensive information source on verbs, here is the book to recommend. Arranged one per page in Cyrillic type, each verb includes English pronunciation and translations. Features over 1,000 verbs.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Russian

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
Learning Russian is Twice as Easy with This Helpful Book!

This easy-to-use reference book gives you:

501 of the most common Russian verbs, alphabetically arranged, one verb per page, conjugated in all tenses

Concise guide to Russian verb conjugation

Hundreds of example sentences and idioms demonstrating verb usage

501 verb drills and exercises

100 Russian verbs for the 21st century

Index of English-Russian verbs . . . and much more

BRAND-NEW
EDITION OF
BARRON'S
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501 VERBS SERIES --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 533 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812046625
• ISBN-13: 978-0812046625
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer Jr was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Xaverian HS. he is a graduate of Georgetown University (1969) and the University of Kansas (1974). For the past 35 years he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of over a dozen books to learn Russian, several translations of the Russian writer Andrei Bely. Considered an expert on Russian writers in emigration in Germany and the United States, Professor Beyer has lectured extensively in Russia, Germany and the United States. For the past few years he has offered seminars on the works of Dan Brown designed to permit students and readers separate fact from fiction.

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful mostly for the beginner, October 3, 2002

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"austin_ed" - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 Russian Verbs (Barron's 201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs) (Paperback)

As an earlier reviewer quite rightly states, once the rules of verb conjugation are learnt, this books usefulness becomes more of a "lazy persons russian verb conjugator".

However, I still purchased it, primarily because of helping me master conjugation by "visualizing" the tables. Russian Verb conjugation isn't Rocket science, but it's still a pain to learn.

If this book consisted of totally irregular verbs it would be extremely useful though and perhaps a better choice for an intermediate russian student.

Thus definitely recommended for a beginning serious Russian student but will be outgrown once you gain confidence.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn your Conjugations!!, April 1, 2004

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This review is from: 501 Russian Verbs (Barron's 201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs) (Paperback)

If you are serious about studying a foreign language, the most important thing you can do is learn to conjugate verbs correctly. Russian is no exception to this rule. This book is an excellent tool for anyone who has trouble with conjugation. Each verb is fully conjugated with perfective and imperfective forms, as well as past and future tenses. More than any other reference book this one will help you to drastically improve your speaking abilities.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An indispensable guide to Russian conjugations, August 13, 2004

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Virgil "Virgil" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 Russian Verbs (Barron's 201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs) (Paperback)

This is an indispensable guide to the conjugations of Russian verbs. While Russian isn't as difficult as it seems to the outsider the grammar is certainly difficult if only because of the number of conjugations and the number of exceptions to each rule. It's enough to frustrate a beginner. This book goes quite a long way towards helping guide you through the maze of verbal conjugations.

If you're studying Russian grammer or are seriously interested in the language you should not be without this. Along with other reviewers here I'd agree, this is a lifesaver.