Timeline for Strange Genitive Plural of просьба: why просьб and not просеб?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 8:26 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 4, 2016 at 14:34 | comment | added | Lara | Other popular endings are "-ко", "-ня", "-це", words with them tend to follow the rule. But for the majority of consonants combinations there are less than 5 words, or no words at all. So, if we count words, not combinations, then we will really see, that the majority of words follows the rule. Just because words ending with "-ка" overwhelm everything else. That's why, that simplification in textbooks is understandable, even though there are tons of exceptions, because for most words it works! :) | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | Lara | Such generalization in the textbooks looks surprising, but is reasonable to some extent, because frequency of combinations is dramatically different. There are thousands of words ending with -ка, and new ones can be created instantly from almost anything. For example, SMS if often called "эсэмэска", Windows XP can be called "экспишка", and my former boss called backend servers in Perl programming language "перлячка"... and so on. These words sound quite natural, follow normal rules of Russian language, and I think nearly any native speaker has invented something like this at least once. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 5:26 | comment | added | студент001 | Thank you for the response! This is very interesting to me, as an American student learning Russian. In all the textbooks I've had, I've been taught to break up word ending consonant clusters with insert vowels in the genitive plural. Your response certainly complicates the textbook's picture. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 5:24 | vote | accept | студент001 | ||
| Mar 3, 2016 at 8:23 | history | answered | Lara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |