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2 WORDS FOR “HERE” AND “NOW” IN 🇷🇺 #learnrussian #russiangrammar #easyrussian #russianlanguage

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In Russian, we have two words for here and two words for now. Let's see what they are and if there is any difference between them. The two words we use for here are "здесь" and "тут". And there is absolutely no difference between them. None. For example, "I'm here", you can say "yes-десь" or "я-тут". Are you here, "ты-здесь" or "ты-тут"? The only thing is in expression here and now, you would say "здесь" is сейчас. I wouldn't say "тут" is сейчас. Speaking of now, again, we use two words for it. One of them is "сичас", and the other one is "тепир". And these two are a bit different. "Сичас" just means "now". For example, "я ем сейчас", "I'm eating now". "Тепир" also means "now", but we generally use it to express contrast between "now" and "before". For example, "раньше я жил в России", "но теперь я живу в Америке". I used to live in Russia before, but now I live in America. See you soon!