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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Is the construction "любые шестьдесят один шарик" grammatically correct?
В коробке лежат n шариков трёх цветов: красного, синего и зелёного.
Если достать из неё любые 61 шарик, то среди них обязательно окажется
по крайней мере 15 синих и хотя бы по 7 красных и зелёных. При ...
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Pronouncing long decimal numbers
I know that there isn't a very simple way to pronounce decimals in Russian. They translate literally as "X wholes, X tenths/hundredths/etc.", where X is feminine.
As such, 0.1 becomes ноль ...
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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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How to keep on track with large numerals
To be entirely frank, I'm a native speaker, but for the overwhelming majority of my day I only use English, and my Russian has started to wane. My job requires me to cycle through a couple of ...
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How do you cite amounts of money in Russian?
How do you cite amounts of money in Russian?
44 целых – 9 десятков?
Do Russians ever cite quantities as один точка два килограммов мяса instead of один целый два десятка килограммов мяса?
Как ...
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What case do numbers take in constructions where they are preceded by "на"?
While doing an exercise in the Russian textbook ТРОЙКА, I came upon the following:
Этот велоcипед на 100 долларов дешевле, чем тот велосипед.
(This bicycle is cheaper than that bicycle by 100 ...
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Do Russian use the Cyrillic Thousands Sign (“҂” U+0482)?
In English (at least in North America, don't know about other English area) you see things like 10k as an abbreviation of 10000. I'm wondering if Russian does something similar, particularly ...
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Russian numbers (in the thousands)
I've been consulting the official website of the city of Dushanbe and found the following interesting passage:
Согласно данным органов ЗАГС-а с 2005 по 2014 год в городе Душанбе
зарегистрировано ...
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Genitive: declining noun + adjective pairs with numbers [duplicate]
I am an intermediate student of Russian, and in one of my courses I came across the following example:
Тут два белых стула. — Two white chairs are here.
My understanding is that the genitive is ...
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Люди or человек after numerals?
From what I know, the plural noun "people" is люди when no numeral precedes it. Whereas "people" preceded by a numeral take the stem человек-, as in два человека, пять человек (the ...
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What are the rules for Russian ordinal indicators?
I believe Russian uses ordinal indicators (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th ... 100th) like this:
1-й
2-й
3-й
4-й
5-й
10-е
What are the rules for assigning the suffix?
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Is "тройбан" derived from "ебан тремя"?
"Тройбан" is a slang word for "три" (a ruder version of 'three'). There is also a word "трояк" (less rude and more common). The affix "як" can be attached to ...
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What case is "новых фото"?
In following sentence: "Он добавил 10 новых фото" - it appears that фото is a direct object and so the accusative case (inanimate) should be used. However, my tables suggest that -ых is the ...
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Мы с нашими четырьмя детьми
What I don't understand in this sentence
Мы с нашими четырьмя детьми
are two things:
why the word "children" is in the instrumental case and not in genitve, as it normally is when preceded by a ...
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What are the subsequent terms in this sequence?
однаждый corresponds to "one," and дваждый corresponds to "two." Would the third term be something like триждый? What are the remaining terms of this sequence, up to say, ten?
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"В об(о,е)их коробках оказались семена" - which vowel should I choose?
Some time ago I took a Russian test that contained the following question:
В об(о,е)их коробках оказались семена.
1) обоих
2) обеих
3) оба варианта корректны
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Which form of год is года here in “1341 года”?
In the fourth part of the prologue to Властелин Колец (The Lord of the Rings) I read
Апрельским утром 1341 года от заселения Хоббитании Бильбо, сам себе на удивленье, вдруг отправился далеко на ...
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Which one is right - "Между двух людей" or "Между двумя людьми"
I wonder which version is grammatically correct -
Между двух людей
or
Между двумя людьми
Some website said that they are both correct, is it truly so?
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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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Написание прилагательных, включающих в свой состав числительные
Предположим, у меня есть купюра в 123'456'789 зимбабвийских долларов (не хочу предполагать это с рублями). Как её корректно назвать?
В правилах обычно указывают, что писать такие числительные нужно ...
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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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Is "51-летний" correct in Russian?
Bumped into this news title today:
I wonder if "51-летний" correct in Russian.
If not, which adjective would be the right one to convey the same meaning?
If yes, how do I pronounce it?
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Why did ten-based numerals such as пятьдеся́т lose the final soft sign of десять?
The ten-based numerals пятьдеся́т, шестьдеся́т, се́мьдесят and во́семьдесят all ditch the final soft sign of де́сять and what decline as if they still retained it. If the declension remains unaffected,...
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одно as "one thing"
I read the following excerpt:
Он был арестован, без права переписка. Это значило одно: расстрел.
No doubt that одно, in this context, means "just one thing".
Can одно also be used in an ...
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Why "по одному часу" is in dative while "по два часа" is not?
I understand why the dative is used in this sentence, given the presence of the preposition по
"Я спала два раза по одному часу"
but I don't understand why it's not used in the following
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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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Adjective-like word before два
I don't know if the word другой is considered an adjective. However it declines like an adjective, and as such I name it an "adjective-like" word.
I know that, when numeral два is either in the ...
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Gender of decimal numbers
I know that decimal numbers containing a whole number plus one or more fractional numbers are referred to as целая (whole number) plus десятая (a tenth) or сотая (a hundredth), etc.
"целая" is ...
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В.п. числительных и одушевленных существительных
Подскажите пожалуйста как правильно изменяются в
винительном падеже составные числительные и связанные с ними
одушевлённые существительные?
Например: как правильно сказать "вижу 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 ...
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Grammatical number of numeral 4
"Существует 4 фактора, от которых зависит наше здоровье".
Here the grammatical number is quite confusing.
Nominative 4 (четыре) is followed by genitive singular фактора. No doubt here. If "4" takes ...
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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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With feminine nouns, how do we know that две and три take the genitive singular rather than the nominative plural?
With masculine and neuter nouns, два and три take the genitive singular. With feminine nouns it is at least usually taught that две and три also take the genitive singular. But how do we know? Given ...
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Word for counting number of kids
I know that, in order to tell "people" (plural) with no numerals, we must say люди. Человек is used either for singular with no numeral, or for plural with numerals. Consequently, 2/3/4 is followed by ...
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Mixed animate and inanimate?
According to the sources I've checked, only numbers from 1 to 4 have an animate ending (meaning that the accusative case will be the same as the genitive, endingwise). Numbers from 5 upward will have ...
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Inflection of fraction numerals of per cents with nouns (в 2,4 процента? -ах? случаев)
I'm a bit puzzled as to the correct inflection of the word процент in a phrase such as
в 2,4 процент(?) случаев
Grammatically in the fractional part of fraction numerals процент must be inflected ...
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Why is "миллиард" used instead of "биллион"?
Russia uses the short scale number-naming system.
Why is, then, "миллиард" used instead of "биллион"?
"Миллиард" (as opposed to "биллион") is used in the long scale number-naming system.
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What is the correct way to write down these numerals with words
Consider the sentence:
"В 1955-1991 годы Польша являлась участником Варшавского договора."
What is the correct grammatical form of the numerals?
Is it
"В тысяча девятьсот пятьдесят пятый - ...
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Expression of number of people
I have two questions about expressions of number of people in Russian:
Once when buying tickets at кассы, I heard the expression "три взрослых". I thought with numbers 2-4, we use the genitive ...
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десяток and its class of numeric forms
I could only find десяток and девяток. What is the range of numbers from 1 to 10 for this numeric form? Is десяток merely a declined form for десятка?
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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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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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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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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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How do I construct numerals?
I learnt that the form of the number changes according to the gender of the noun.
Пример :
Одна ручка (жен.)
Две ручка (жен.)
Question : How do I construct the form of the number for три, четыре, ...
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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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Can "одни" be paired with words that exist in both the singular and the plural?
I realize that a couple of questions have already been posted on this topic. The ones I took a look at have been listed below:
Non-numerical use of “один”
Я вижу + numeral + noun - governed by what ...
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In "делегация из 5 человек во главе с президентом", are 5 or 6 visitors meant?
Got a business letter with this phrase followed by a list of 6 officials, sixth being a president. So I wonder whether it's me who always interpreted this phrase incorrectly (5 members total) or them (...
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Винительный падеж - косвенный или прямой, и почему
Как говорит нам Грамота.ру
Числительные два, три, четыре (а также составные числительные, оканчивающиеся на два, три, четыре, например двадцать два) в именительном падеже сочетаются с ...
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The etimology of the "-дцать" postfix?
For numbers between 10 and 40 Russians use дцать. What is дцать? A very Russian way to say десять? A word made of multiple parts, each of which do have a meaning, like дца and ть, as in еха-ть? (I ...
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