Russian · Chapter 1 · Lesson 10 · Grammar primer
Verbs
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification.
The short version
Russian has no verb to be in the present
Byt exists in the past and the future and simply vanishes in the present, so a sentence with no verb in it is complete and perfectly normal. English speakers find the gap uncomfortable for about a fortnight and then stop noticing it entirely.
Ya zdes.
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Lesson 10 of 16 in this chapter