Questions about the declension of nouns ans well as adjectives, numerals and participles, for example, "What ending should I use for this noun?" or "What form of adjective should be used in the context of ..."
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What is the right form of answer for the question "Where?"
в Хельсинки
OR
в Хельсинках?
user2057
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Is there a reason why "чёрт" and "сосе́д" don't decline for nominative plural according to standard Russian spelling rules?
A while back, I noticed that "сосе́д" is "сосе́ди" in the nominative plural and that "чёрт" becomes "че́рти." With "чёрт," my guess is that the "ё" affects the following letters, but with "сосе́ди," I have no idea why it isn't spelled "сосе́ды"…
Lisa Beck
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Genitive plural of "мечта"
Even though the word мечта officially has no genitive plural, is it possible to say мечт colloquially, or use мечтаний as an alternative?
Like, "That's one of my dreams". "Это одна из моих мечт" or "Это одно из моих мечтаний"
swrutra
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Склоняются ли иностранные фамилии мужчин, заканчивающиеся на букву "а"?
Склоняются ли мужские иностранные фамилии, заканчивающаяся на букву "а"?
Например, правильно ли говорить:
фильм Эмира Кустурицы,
метод Рунге-Кутты,
творчество Акиры Куросавы,
алгоритм Дейкстры,
песня Никиты Джигурды?
Есть ли по этому поводу…
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Why does one decline Planck and not Nietzsche?
Both Planck and Nietzsche are foreign names. Why does one say
Я знаю Планка
но
Я знаю Ницше
?
Is there a criterion to know when does a borrowed name should be declined? Is the "-e" ending that YellowSky mentions enough?
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Decimal Declension II
This is a follow-up question to my earlier question about decimal declensions in colloquial speech. I understand that in everyday speech, native speakers bend the rules a little, and may not fully decline long decimal expressions ("pi equals…
DET
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Тайна рождения китов, овец и медведей
Вот говорят:
Кошка окотилась (родился котёнок).
Собака - ощенилась (родился щенок).
Лошадь ожеребилась (родился жеребенок).
Корова отелилась (родился телёнок).
Как быть с китами, овцами и медведями?
Protect children of Donbas2014
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When is "это" declined?
The word "это" appears in texts quite often. But sometimes it stays the same no matter what word comes after it, or sometimes it's declined according to the word it's reflecting. For example:
Это грамматика. У тебя есть эта грамматика?
As you can…
Steve
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Declension of America
"From America" translates to из Америки and I know that из will take the genitive case. Америка is a feminine noun (because it ends in а and is a place).
To form the genitive case of a singular feminine noun, you replace а with ы. Америка would…
Chris G.
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Can we know that хоро́ший and высо́кий declines differently based on their ending consonant?
I read the Russian Declension Wikipedia article, which gives several examples for different adjective declensions.
The article explains that masculine adjectives ending in the nominative in ий and neuters in ее are declined as follows:
его (read:…
HeyJude
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Заискивающего or заискивающегося?
I'm writing a poem in Russian, and maybe I'm tired, but I'm kind of stuck on one particular word. Here's the couplet I'm working on right now:
мне теперь не до твоего смол-тока
о японском пиве заискивающегося
The basic meaning is "Right now,…
user1388
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"Как Ваш дела" vs "Как Ваши дела"
If I'm asking "How are you?" to a singular person in a formal way, why to I say "Как Ваши дела" instead of "Как Ваш дела"? Does "Как Ваш дела" mean anything?
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Genitive ending: why тихий - тихого when хороший - хорошего?
Why would the ending "-ого" be used in the genitive of the adjective тихий (тихого) while the ending "-его" be used in the genitive of such an adjective as хороший (хорошего) since both adjectives end in an unstressed final stem consonant being one…
snubnosed dolphin
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Animate nouns: the very rare cases
I found special case declinations for the following types of nouns - but yet the tables didn't give example words.
Therefore I challenge you to give an example of ... (deviating declination of accusative plural give in brackets)
A first declination…
arney
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How to decline animate neuter nouns in the accusative case?
How to say things like:
Я вижу... дитя, лицо (в значении "человек"), животное, насекомое, млекопитающее, существо ("живой организм"), чудище, чудовище, страшилище...
Do they stay the same or do we need to change them?
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