I decided to put this question into the beginners section because it's a pretty simple question. Usually inflectional endings of nouns don't confuse me, but I've never really caught onto one trend.

This trend is the Zero, or null ending of the genitive plural for nouns, E.g) nom sing: сло́ва (slóva) gen pl: сло́в (slóv)

Как бы мы говорим, без слов?

Could I please have some light shed on the rules for when a genitive plural will use the null inflection?


Thanks a bunch guys and have yourselves a good day.