Thread: rules for plural

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Can anyone help me determining the rules for plural: do russian words (in the plural) end up allways with either Ы, A, or и? How can I determine if a singular word will end up with one or another?

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Originally Posted by cactus

Can anyone help me determining the rules for plural: do russian words (in the plural) end up allways with either Ы, A, or и?

If I'm not mistaken, only the neuter substantives have A at the end in plural nominative...

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http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/main ... nguageID=6

Russian Grammar in English.
MORPHOLOGY
Nouns
Number - Page 34

Also, there are some masculine nouns that end with stress -a. Those you have to memorize. Here are some off the top of my heaD:

паспорт (-> паспортА)
лес
город
череп
доктор
берег
век
глаз
жемчуг
голос
повар
борт
рог
холод
рукав
свитер
поезд
отпуск
профессор
остров

There isn't a direct pattern, really, that tells you which one has which plural. However, you can see two patterns here that are in no way universal.

1) The stressed -a took the form of the dual in Russian, which used to exist a while ago. Some of the words kept it, especially the "paired words" (рогa "horns" / глазa "eyes").

2) Also, this plural can be seen words that in old Russian that used to be written in xxax (x = 'consonant') and then changed to xoxox (i.e. град -> город, хлад -> холод.. etc).

Also проводА, номерА, ...
You have to memorize each word individually, just like in German.

Originally Posted by pisces

Also проводА, номерА, ...
You have to memorize each word individually, just like in German.

Yes!

And I just remembered

вечерА, парусА..

Originally Posted by Оля

If I'm not mistaken...

I was mistaken!!

Ok, thank you all, I see there are some rules and a lot of exeptions. It

[quote=cactus]Ok, thank you all, I see there are some rules and a lot of exeptions. It