Thread: Who's afraid of Russian Nouns...? [me!] Русские существительные........

Oh BLAH!

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Там пять зданий. Они зелёные и жёлтые.
Здесь один дом. Он не чёрный, он белый.

У меня две красные дома.
У тебя три синые дома.
У учителя пять голобые домов.
У Ивана домов нет.




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Там пять зданий. Они зелёные и жёлтые. Здесь один дом. Он не чёрный, он белый.

У меня два красных дома.
У тебя три синие дома.
У учителя пять голобых домов.
У Ивана домов нет.

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Ah ok... Most of my mistakes where with the adjectives and not with the nouns.
I was so focussed on the nouns that I forgot about the adjectives. Синие was just a typo.

But the principle with дом was right then: It is Nominative until it is five or more. From five, it is Genitive.

I don't understand when it should be два or две.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Oh BLAH!



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Ah ok... Most of my mistakes where with the adjectives and not with the nouns.
I was so focussed on the nouns that I forgot about the adjectives. Синие was just a typo.

But the principle with дом was right then: It is Nominative until it is five or more. From five, it is Genitive.

I don't understand when it should be два or две.

У меня два красных дома.
У тебя три синих дома.
У учителя пять голубых домов.
У Ивана домов (оr дома if you mean singular noun дом) нет.

"Два" - is for masculin nouns (два дома for example) "две" is for feminin (две девушки)

I've never been afraid of nouns so far. But now, after thinking of explanation, I am ))

Originally Posted by Hanna

Oh BLAH!

Is this in Russian?

Originally Posted by Basil77

Is this in Russian?

LMAO

Originally Posted by Hanna

But the principle with дом was right then: It is Nominative until it is five or more. From five, it is Genitive.

In fact it is not. Два, три, четыре дома - here дома is genitive singular. When counting a noun phrase in nominative or accusative with adjectives, the adjectives are in genitive plural if the noun is masculine or neuter, but in nominative plural if the noun is feminine. The noun itself is in genitive singular with 2, 3, 4 and any numbers ending in spoken 2, 3, 4 (so not 12, 13, 14, but 22, 23, 24), and genitive plural with other numbers except those ending in 1 when it is singular. Yes, that's insane. And furthermore, in other cases the numeral, the adjectives and the noun agree in case, for example all instrumental.