Pronunciation of "отпуска"

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How am I supposed to pronounce отпуска?

I've seen both о́тпуска and отпуска́. My dictionary is kinda ambiguous so I'm struggling with this one.

Wiktionary, which is already mentioned by @Eugene, could be a useful tool in such cases. Many words have their inflections documented with stress marks. — Vitaly, Nov 16 '17 at 16:24

Yellow Sky · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-15T20:11:04.153

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Óтпуска is the Genitive case singular of óтпуск:

У меня давно не было óтпуска. – I haven't got a vacation for a long time.

Отпускá is the Nominative and Accusative case plural of óтпуск:

Друзья рассказали мне, как они провели свои отпускá. – My friends told me how they had spent their vacations.

edited Nov 15 '17 at 20:11

answered Nov 15 '17 at 20:04

Yellow Sky

I wonder if the latter is a somewhat vulgar/dialectic form, as I think the formally normal plural should be "óтпуски" – Arioch Nov 16 '17 at 09:31
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@Arioch check here: Викисловарь: "отпуск" or Грамота.ру:"отпуск" – Eugene Nov 16 '17 at 10:13
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BTW, this is not unique to отпуска. Quite a few Russian words only have stress to differentiate their grammatical forms: поезда, страны, волос Some words can be stressed in three different ways: округа, перепела, выносим. Those are quite rare. – Sergey Slepov Nov 16 '17 at 13:13

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