How many variations of one word?
A Russian word has to be inflected according to case, tense, and plural. How many variations do that amount to? I mean, if each case has variations in different tenses which also is inflected when in plural, then doesn't that create an almost unmangeable ammount of variations?
Re: How many variations of one word?
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Originally Posted by Plotin
A Russian word has to be inflected according to case, tense, and plural. How many variations do that amount to? I mean, if each case has variations in different tenses which also is inflected when in plural, then doesn't that create an almost unmangeable ammount of variations?
The same word can't have both tense AND case, so it's not quite that bad :).