Questions about the declension of nouns ans well as adjectives, numerals and participles, for example, "What ending should I use for this noun?" or "What form of adjective should be used in the context of ..."
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Is “сноск” a correct inflection of “сноска”?
In a journal article I came across a claim that "сноск" is the "genitive plural zero ending" form of the word "сноска" (English: footnote). However, a Russian speaker I know is insistent that this is ...
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How to arrange declension tables in Russian
It seems that many English (online) sources list cases in the following order:
Nominative - Accusative - Genitive - Dative - Instrumental - Prepositional
I guess that this ordering is inspired ...
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Does “был крутой” means the same as “был крутым”?
I'm reading Незнайка в солнечном городе and just encountered something I cannot properly make sense of:
Подъем был такой крутой, что ...
Obviously, подъем (= climb, rise, ascent, etc.) is a male ...
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How to decline North Rhein-Westphalia (Северный Рейн-Вестфалия)
I am not certain how to decline it. Wikipedia has no problem with that, and declines all three words independently: в Северном Рейне-Вестфалии. However, intuitively Рейн-Вестфалия seems to be a ...
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Склоняется ли “сколько”?
Как правильно сказать:
На скольких человек заказывать пиццу
или
На сколько человек заказывать пиццу
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Заискивающего or заискивающегося?
I'm writing a poem in Russian, and maybe I'm tired, but I'm kind of stuck on one particular word. Here's the couplet I'm working on right now:
мне теперь не до твоего смол-тока
о японском ...
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Decimal Declension II
This is a follow-up question to my earlier question about decimal declensions in colloquial speech. I understand that in everyday speech, native speakers bend the rules a little, and may not fully ...
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Decimal Declension
I've always thought that the formal rules for declining decimals in Russian seem a little...unwieldy. For example, I gather that the correct way to say "pi is approximately equal to 3.14159" -- which ...
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Does “case” equal “declension”? 6 declensions for 16 cases?
I am somehow bemused by the sixteen cases of the Russian. On the other hand, I thought that there were only six kinds of declension. Perhaps these two facts are not contradictory, but the problem is ...
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Declension after decimal numbers
By integer numbers the rule is more or less clear:
1,21,.. год,
2,3,4,22,...года,
5,6,...,19...лет.
How about decimal numbers? does one easily take the integer part of the number before the ...
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Inheriting cases / declension on appositions
This question arises from a tangential discussion in this one: Preposition to quote: из or от (or none of them).
Concerning the punctuation (comma, dash, brackets...), when does a subordinate clause ...
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В течение vs. на протяжении
При указании отрезков времени, во фразах вроде в продолжениие (на протяжении, в течение) трёх лет, в течение заканчивается на -е (винительный падеж), а на протяжении на -и (предложный). Есть тут ...
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“свеч” and “свечей” - what is the correct version
I have been thinking about for a while, but didn't come to any conclusion.
What is the correct version for "свечи" (plural for "свеча") in the genitive?
"Как расстанешься, если каждый вечер, лишь ...
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How to decline adjectives modifying feminine nouns after 2, 3, 4?
In the nominative case, if we are counting something of size 2, 3, or 4 then the object being counted is in the genitive singular case, e.g., три треугольника. If we have an adjective involved, then ...
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“занял целые 5 лет” or “занял целыx 5 лет”?
What's the right way of saying "Этот процесс занял целые пять лет" or "Этот процесс занял целыx пять лет". I guess it's accusative inanimate, so it should be целые, am I correct?
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What's the plural for “пиво”?
Yesterday I visited a friend in Oxford. At some point we stopped at his favourite pub, where, as he said, was "большой выбор пив". This didn't sound right and got me thinking, but I soon realised ...
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Order of declensions (склонения)
I'm learning Russian, and I see it mentioned in study material that Russian nouns have three declensions (склонения). In English-language learning material, the order of the declensions is like so:
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Are composite note names(such as до-диез) declinable?
The names of simple notes
до, ре, ми, фа, соль, ля, си
are not declinable (несклоняемые). The names of the modifiers диез (sharp), бемоль, (flat), бекар (natural), etc. are declinable
знак ...
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Миш, Кать, Ань, пап, мам — what is it in an address?
When I am addressing someone and say:
Кать, приходи в гости в воскресенье
is Кать just a spoken reduction of Катя, or is it a separate grammatical form?
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Чаю vs. чая: what ending is correct?
Is чаю or чая more correct in the sentences
Я бы не отказался от чашки ча*
and
Можно мне ещё ча*?
and what's the grammatical explanation?
