Timeline for Strange Genitive Plural of просьба: why просьб and not просеб?
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| Feb 28, 2016 at 16:29 | comment | added | Nikolay Ershov | @Lara Oh. I missed these. And I don't think there are ones that behave differently. Does молотьба have a gen. pl. at all? Wiktionary lists "моло́тьб" with an asterisk in front. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 14:55 | comment | added | Lara | But "судьба" - "судеб" and "усадьба" - "усадеб". So, words with "дьб" tend to follow the rule suggested in the question. Are there any words of this type with equal consonants, but different behaviour in genitive plural? | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 5:56 | history | answered | Nikolay Ershov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |