Не стоит пропускать ужин, даже если ты устал.

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Breakdown of Не стоит пропускать ужин, даже если ты устал.

• если: if
• ты: you
• даже: even

Questions & Answers about Не стоит пропускать ужин, даже если ты устал.

What does Не стоит mean here, and what is the literal idea behind it?

Не стоит + infinitive is a common impersonal way to say It’s not worth (doing) / You shouldn’t (do).
Literally, it comes from стоить (to cost / to be worth), so the core idea is it isn’t worth it.

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Why is пропускать in the infinitive form?

After (не) стоит, Russian normally uses an infinitive to name the action being evaluated:
Не стоит + infinitive → It’s not worth + -ing / Don’t + verb.
So Не стоит пропускать… = It’s not worth skipping… / Don’t skip…

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Why is it пропускать (imperfective) and not пропустить (perfective)?

пропускать (imperfective) suggests a general recommendation / habitual idea: don’t make a habit of skipping dinner, don’t skip it in general.
пропустить (perfective) would sound more like a single specific instance: don’t skip dinner (this time / tonight).
Both can work depending on context, but the imperfective fits broad advice very naturally.

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Is ужин in any special case here, and why?