A word builder which contains a good number of words on a variety of topics

I have been studying Russian for 10 years. Anyone from Beginner and up will find this book useful. It is very good in showing motion verbs - uni-directional & multi-directional. It can be used to find a pattern for any regular verb not already listed in the book. It is especially useful in finding the irregular forms. The 501 title is a misnomer. If you know the verbs in this book you will be able to confidently speak conversational Russian. The layout of the pages provides a clear and concise understanding of the relationship between the Perfective and Imperfective forms. Each entry provides the accents which are so important to clear speech. There is a dictionary in the back of the book which allows you to find words. Used in concert with 5,000 Russian Words (another publication) and Katzner's Russian/English dictionary you are well equipped to learn and translate from either English or Russian.

Rating: (5 / 5)

This is a great resource. It's very helpful and well organized but unfortunately, the binding is poor. My copy has been used only a couple of months and it's literally falling apart.

Rating: (2 / 5)

The 501 Series is excellent for learners of all other foreign languages. I would highly recommend this book and other books in its series under different foreign languages.

Rating: (4 / 5)

I rented 501 French Verbs from the library. For each verb it had examples of usage. The French book also had idiom phrases, quizzes, etc... Liked it so much I bought it from Amazon.

So I rented 501 Russian Verbs from the library expecting similar content as the French version. What a difference. If you really need a book that shows you how to conjugate 501 Russian verbs without context and without examples, this book is for you.

Honestly how can you have a Russian verb book that covers verbs of motions with one or two word English translations. Completely worthless for learning how to use the verbs.

The differences between perfective and imperfective require examples to begin to make any sense of the usage.

The only reason I can think of for the positive reviews is that it must have been a classroom assignment for extra credit.

Rating: (1 / 5)

I got the "501 Russian verbs..." book for my sister who is learning Russian. She says that the book is helpful, detailed, and informative. It is a very good book.

Rating: (5 / 5)

I majored in Russian while in college! The "501 Russian Verbs" Book was an invaluable resource for me during my studies that I couldn't have imagined living without!

All Russian verbs are arranged alphabetically and are conjugated fully for easy use. I found that the verbs used in this book were of the most common Russian verbs used in everyday conversation. I highly recommend this book to all those wanting a comprehensive resource to enhance their learning of the Russian language.

Rating: (5 / 5)

These kinds of books are a joke in my opinion. I suppose that some incredibly lazy Russian language student could find the answer to some obvious question that they should be figuring out on their own. Anyone that is lazy and is learning Russian is learning the wrong language; better stick with pig latin.

Russian verbs is a very complex subject and you can buy many books in Russia that are just devoted to verbs or motion or perfective/imperfective and they are all clear as mud usually.

There are good spelling dictionaries you can buy from Russia that have every verb know there in case there are some participles or gerunds that you are unsure of but the rest you can find out in a regular dictionary and derive using rules you learn in the first few weeks of studying Russian.

My general advice is that unless you are very sure what you are buying, DO NOT buy any books on Russian written by non native speakers. In general non native speakers can't hit the broad side of barn with their understanding of Russian.

Get "5000 Russian Words With All Their Inflected Forms: A Russian-English Dictionary by Richard L. Leed and Slava Paperno
". This is an infinitely better book. There is really no comparison.

I bought the 501 Russian verbs book and I never use it.

Whereas the one I mentioned is very useful and well organized.

In general, I would not buy any books on Russian that are by non native speakers. There are a very few exceptions but this is not one of them.

I actually question the usefullness of this whole series of books. You need to learn verbs in context of actual Russian movies or books or real speech you hear. If you try and use them by learning them in a dictionary, the result will be laughable.

For example, when you hear an imperative a lot or see it a lot, you will learn it and then know it and how and when it is used. Do you really expect to look up an imperative in a dictionary and use it correctly? That is such a laughable notion. Especially in Russian!

Rating: (2 / 5)

This is something like an expanded dictionary of the most common and useful Russian verbs. Other reference books will help you conjugate the verbs, but this one does it for you in a very complete way. Each verb is given an entire page. All forms of the verb are shown with the accent marks. I used this all the time when I was studying. Often I would use the standard formula to determine the proper verb form, and then I would use this book to check myself. Just looking at the pages helps you to get used to thinking of Russian verbs in all their conjugations. You could study Russian without this book, but if you have it, you will find it useful.

Rating: (5 / 5)

I am in my third year of studying Russian, and I use this book all the time as a reference. All the verbs are fully conjugated, and presented in an easy to read form. Highly recommended for students.

Rating: (5 / 5)

624 pages of necessary grammatical study: verbs in the perfective and imperfective aspects. Conjugated in the infinitive, presente, past, future and condicional tenses.
In english and cyrillic letterings !!!
With a page layout that is easy to find, read, memorize.
Really perfect for those who study the idiom in a serious way.

Rating: (5 / 5)