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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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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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All words should be memorised :-)
If I'm not mistaken, only the neuter substantives have A at the end in plural nominative...Quote:
Originally Posted by cactus
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All words should be memorised :-)
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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.
Yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by pisces
And I just remembered
вечерА, парусА..
I was mistaken!! :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
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