Can foreign names be used as a basis for patronymics? If, for example, an Englishman whose first name is Donald becomes a citizen of Russia and has a son there, will that son have the patronymic

the only difference I can formulate now is that 'ходить' can (or even more so, does) mean a repetitive action, while 'идти' usually means only a singular action. There can be numerous examples, I can't fit them all in a comment, but just a couple: я иду в школу / я хожу в школу (I go to school, I'm going to school)

It's мне нравится бегать. More natural, perhaps, is я люблю бегать; definitely not интересуюсь. Мне нравится бежать is something you could say in the middle of running, in response to a question why you wouldn't walk. Or it could be an "existential", mildly pretentious way to say "I like fleeing". This is a specific case of the motion ...

Does the rule that "ш" cannot be soft (unpalatalized) apply when it is followed by a soft sign "шь"? In the famous song "Никого не Будет в Доме" from "Ирнония Судьбы", there's a line "...из которых

Two types of quotation marks are used in Russian typography. The first one is «ёлочки», which is used in more formal writing. The other one is „лапки“. When you have one quote inside another you can use both of them. На первой полосе было крупными буквами написано: «Пароход „Титаник“ столкнулся с ...

Verbs have different aspect (see other questions on this forum about aspect, this one in particular). читать is an imperfect verb, it denotes a process in its development, an unfinished activity. прочесть is a perfect verb, it denotes a completed activity. Examples: Я читаю книгу. (читать) I am reading a book. Я прочел книгу. (прочесть) I've ...

Где means the place itself without action, and куда means direction or aim. Not sure, I'm right, but it seems like you have to manipulate time to male this difference between где and куда in English. Где maps simple time, and куда maps continuous and perfect: Где эта улица? - Where is this street? Где было молоко? - Where was the milk? Куда ты ...

Розенталь в "Справочнике по правописанию и литературной правке для работников печати" пишет (§151, пункт 5) (там почти в самом конце страницы), что "Из двух вариантов: встретить нескольких товарищей и встретить несколько ...

After the fall of the reduced, къде became кде which then turned into где trough vocalization of the voiceless. къде is used in the gramotas (788, dated 1180-1200), где in several Old Russian texts of no later than XIII. Note that written Old Novgorod dialect mixed ъ and e. The interjacent form кде is used, say in the Primary Chronicle dated 1117. I'd say it's some time ...

What are the differences in usage between народ and люди? I'd like to see some examples to explain such differences.