Questions tagged [числительные]
Covers questions about numerals. Numerals are a class of words (a part of speech) that denote quantity or number like "три" or "трое". Words that denote order ("первый", "второй", "третий" и т.д.) behave like adjectives, and words like "миллион" behave like nouns; questions about them should be tagged accordingly.
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Я вижу + numeral + noun - governed by what case?
Я ви́жу одного́ ма́льчика. (I see one boy.)
Я ви́жу два до́ма. (I see two houses.)
Я ви́жу двух ма́льчиков. (I see two boys.)
I often get confused with the cases. As far as I know, after "...
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Can anyone clear up some discrepancies between rules for numeral+adjective+noun agreement for 2/3/4 and actual usage (as found through e-sources)?
While trying to augment my knowledge on Russian numerals with regard to how they combine with nouns and adjectives, I paid a visit to Reverso after learning that any adjectives placed between the ...
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Special treatment for plural forms depending on number of objects - where does it originate from?
This has puzzled me for a long time. In Russian, we count objects in a weird way:
Один камень
Два камня
Три камня
Четыре камня
Пять камней
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Двадцать камней
Двадцать один камень
Then, the pattern ...
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Are there analogous words for words оба, обе for three and more?
I can take two books in the bookshop and say обе to indicate I want to buy both.
Are there any analogous words for three and more items, to indicate that I have all of them in mind?
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The origin of complex plural forms
What caused complex plural forms in Russian? Were they borrowed from another language, inherited from Old Russian, or is there another reason why they appeared?
By "complex plural forms" I mean the ...
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Numerals changing the case of adjectives and nouns
In the nominative case, numbers ending with 1 govern the nominative/singular in the noun, numbers ending with 2-4 govern genitive/singular and all others genitive/plural. (That is the "easy" part, can ...
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Human animate plural - двое, трое,
This answer gives a short idea of using human animate plural forms, e. g. that they are used for persons only (?!). However, it's not quite clear, when they apply.
For instance:
за стеной стоят ...
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Agreement of numerals, adjectives and nouns
I'm trying to figure out how numerals agree with adjectives and nouns... @_@
I've found this sentence:
Я нашла тридцать шесть старые газеты
I'm not sure it is correct... Shouldn't it be:
Я нашла ...
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Numerals and cases - why in this sentence the adjective is in plural form?
I'm studying numerals and I found this example:
У меня есть 2 старших брата, и одна старшая сестра
far as I know after У меня есть It should be an nominative, so for the rule of the numbers the 2 ...
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Mathematical pronunciation of the number 1
I have a question about pronouncing the number 1 in Russian for mathematics.
When the number 1 appears by itself on the right side of an equation (or inequality or congruence or other mathematical ...
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When to use «раз, два, три» instead of «один, два, три»?
I know that один, два, три is equivalent to one, two, three in English. But, I've also heard раз, два, три used in multiple Russian songs from different artists, and I've seen this in several places ...
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Measurement units after numbers - genitive plural or nominative singular?
If a number ends with 0,5,6,7,8, or 9, the following noun is used in genitive plural. Do measurement units make an exception or not?
Compare:
В стаде триста девяносто коров. (В стаде тристо ...
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Двадцать один хорош(?) год - declension after number 21
EN: I know that number 21 (in nominative) demands nominative singular (21 год) and, although number 22 (in nominative) would demand genitive singular from the upcoming noun (22 года), an adjective ...
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"Один" as an equivalent of indefinite article
Even though, theoretically, there are no articles in Russian, can один sometimes work as the indefinite article?
At least I've seen "одни" ("a few ones") which is similar in usage to "unos" in ...
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Does the Russian numeral rule for the adjective that comes between the number and the noun (see below) apply to animate nouns in actual usage?
The rule I refer to is this:
For numeral + adjective + noun in genitive case structures where the numeral-noun-adjective phrase is serving in a nominative case (e.g., the three little pigs went to ...
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How to write out the date in russian for a tattoo [duplicate]
How to write April seventeenth two thousand fifteen in Russian, im trying to figure out a interesting way to get a tattoo of the date my grandmother died
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