intransitive reflexive verbs

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Intransitive Reflexive Verbs in Russian In Russian, the reflexive suffix -ся (or -сь after a vowel) is often used to transform a transitive verb ...

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Why did the meeting end so early?

Почему собрание закончилось так рано?

Pochemu sobraniye zakonchilos' tak rano?

The director had something come up and had to leave urgently.

У директора возникло срочное дело, и ему пришлось уехать.

U direktora vozniklo srochnoye delo, i yemu prishlos' uyekhat'.

This old chair is going to break completely soon.

Этот старый стул скоро совсем сломается.

Etot staryy stul skoro sovsem slomayetsya.

I told you a long time ago that it was time to throw it away.

Я же тебе давно говорил, что его пора выбросить.

Ya zhe tebe davno govoril, chto yego pora vybrosit'.

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