Russian · Chapter 17 · Lesson 5 · Grammar primer
Verbs
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification - revisited.
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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