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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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What are the subsequent terms in this sequence?

In Russian, there are no such words as *однаждый or *дваждый, there are words однажды “once” and дважды “twice”. Then goes трижды “thrice, three times” and четырежды “four times”. These words are adv …
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Numerals changing the case of adjectives and nouns

1. The Accusative case of 1 + noun and 5 or more + noun Both один and the noun take the Accusative case according to their gender and animateness/inanimateness if the gender is masculine. Один agrees …
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Склоняется ли "сколько"?

Склоняется. Им. сколько Род. скольких Дат. скольким, (по) скольку Тв. сколькими Пр. скольких Вин. одуш. скольких Вин. неодуш. сколько Местоимение сколько склоняется по типу прилагательны …
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Special treatment for plural forms depending on number of objects - where does it originate ...

In Old Church Slavonic numerals didn't constitute a distinct part of speech, numbers 1-4 were numerical adjectives, numbers bigger than 5 were numerical nouns, that is why numbers 1-4 agreed in gender …
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Fully expanded form of the dates (years, specially) and their case aspects

To begin with, I must point out that in Russian, when we say dates, e.g., 03.12.2008, the name of the month is an attribute in Genitive to the number of the date (03 in this example), this number of t …
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Двадцать один хорош(?) год - declension after number 21

All the numerals ending in 1, exept for those that end in 11 (11, 111, 711, 1011, etc.), need the following noun in the Nominatve case singular. If there is also an attribute adjective, it agrees with …
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123456000-й словами

Насколько я знаю, и, если предположить, что вы написали в заголовке именно то, что имели в виду, ваше числительное, вынесенное в заголовок, является неправильным, даже будучи количественным, или вы пр …
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What case do numbers take in constructions where they are preceded by "на"?

After на you've got to put the following numeral into the accusative case. The noun that follows the numeral is in the accusative case singular if the numeral ends in 1 except for those that end i …
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Which one is right - "Между двух людей" or "Между двумя людьми"

It was already in 1937 that Dmitry Ushakov in his famous four-volume dictionary wrote that using между with the Genitive case was obsolete. Между двух людей is obsolete, because двух людей is Genitive …
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What case is "новых фото"?

The phrase “новых фото” is in the genitive case plural. The whole sentence Он добавил 10 новых фото is grammatically correct, it is exactly how that should be said in Russian. But the sentence is tric …
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