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This is getting more interesting with each post. :) I agree this must be one of the areas of the language which can only be mastered by intuition and experience. But it is important to know at least...

Thank you all, this has been very enlightening and interesting. :)

Isn't it possible that some or even all of these words used to be formed as augmentatives and just lost the connection to the basic word? The funny thing about Чудовище is that it's German...

Thanks again. That's very helpful. I did notice that чудовище for example has its stress on "o", even though the word also gets listed as an example for an augmentative, but I take it it may be...

OK, thanks, I think I get it now. :)

Oh, one more thing: on sterling it says that the stress in носище is on и. Does it regularly go there if the suffix is used, or is that something which might...

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that word. In German, we have no grammatical declinable suffix for such purposes (and only two for diminutives), but we can stick lots of words as compound prefixes on nouns...

Really? Нос being masculine, isn't носище neuter? Is it always -ище or is it -ища for feminine nouns?



That's not in starling, but the other is. Now of course I'd like to know all the suffixes...

Russian obviously has a plethora of diminutive forms, but today I stumbled on what appears to be the opposite of that, namely for example нос -> носище, nose - big nose. Intriguing! But that's not in...