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Russian has several verbs that are equivalent to English verb put. The verb класть/положить is used for putting something in a horizontal position, like papers. The verb ставить/поставить is used for putting something in a vertical position, like books on a shelf, or for putting down furniture or equipment. ставить/поставить is also used for electronics. e.g. Мы ставим диск. We put on a disk.

These verbs are considered motion verbs, thus where you put the item is indicated in the accusative case or with the forms сюда/туда

Положите книги сюда. Put teh books down here. (This indicates putting the books in a pile, as you would in the post office. [POST OFFICE? Really??])
Поставьте книги на полку. Put the books on the shelf.
Поставь чемодан туда. Put the suitcase down over there.

класть: кладу, кладёшь, кладёт, кладём, кладёте, кладут. клал, клала, клали
положить: положу, положишь, положит, положим, положите, положат
ставить/по-: ставлю, ставишь, ставит, ставим, ставите, ставят

You will most often hear these verbs in their imperative forms, положи(те) and поставь(те).

Заполните пропуски:
1. Миша, поставь чемодан Мери туда, в большую комнату.
2. Где письма, которые ты хочешь отправить? Положи их туда на стол. Я пойду на почту и отправлю их сегодня.
3. Это ваш чемодан? Поставьте его на конвейер.
4. Где ваши документы? Я их клал на стол у вас в кабинете.
5. Где диск? Положи его в дисковод!


Tom Hiddleston is officially a dork. A completely lovable dork, but a dork nonetheless.

RIGHT. Spent the weekend hiding from the internets, mostly, and getting caught up/arranged on writing. Now I have to get caught up on tags (oh dear lord my inbox) and corrections on my languages. Which won't be as hard/as bad. I think. I hope. Depending on what the day at work is like. I do, at least, feel somewhat better? Mmm, it doesn't look like there's much incoming, and I feel somewhat less exhausted so hopefully there won't be as much falling asleep at my desk. That was... irritating. And I have stuff to do, no doubt, with the usual weekend backlog.

Summer is definitely here. I would go so far as to say summer is sitting on this town like a great fat bastard chewing on our tolerance and dripping sweat and humidity. On the plus side, it actually hasn't gotten any hotter than it already is, which is around the mid 80s. I could live with it not getting any hotter than this. We've had a decent amount of rainfall so we're not worrying so much about drought conditions. We are really very lucky where we live, that we don't have the massive climate catastrophes that other places have been having. It could be a hell of a lot worse.

Things and stuff. Things to do. My brain is churning overtime on the writing, which is kind of nice. I got out the mini-painting stuff yesterday and started, and got about halfway done, some sort of golem type thingie in such a way that I am actually rather pleased with it! I might have to do that, work on simple stuff right now, to begin with, and save the more complicated figures with lots of clothes and fiddly bits for the weekend when I can sit down and paint for a frillion hours at a time. I'm also starting to realize how much time having my Dragon*Con costumes all ready frees me up with. I do like that. No need to worry, just. I need to get some parts for Faye, which I'll probably do around the end of July, and then dye them. And then I need to get my unitard for Tron costume which, again, maybe end of July, and then do that construction in August. Because it's either cutting out holes and reinforcing edges, and then wrapping myself in lightwire, or sticking fabric in a pot to dye and boil and setting it and so on. Easy-peasy.

The hard part will be finishing my Russian book so I can babble at Misha some more and completely confuse him. Ahem. (No, I won't. That would be mean. But if I can finish the entire Russian text by D*C, HOLY SHIT TWO FULL TEXTBOOKS IN ALMOST THREE YEARS OMG LEARNING RUSSIAN ALMOST BY MYSELF. AUGH.)