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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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"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 Spanish - the plural of the indefinite article. For…
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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.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 женщин и котов. " Хочется сказать "я вижу…
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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 be found in almost any Russian grammar) There is…
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Стопятьсот (100500)

What does it mean when Russian say: "Здесь стопятьсот графиков, что с ними делать?"
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Numerals: двух сто or двести

Are these used interchangeably? Both are given as two hundred by translators, so which one is used?
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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 numeral? why is even the word дети used, and not…
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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 каком наибольшем n такое…
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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 financial transactions a day and those tend to include…
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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 уточняется в пресс-релизе, опубликованном на сайте…
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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 expression like "I'll tell you one thing", when the purpose…
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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 a common accusative for both animate and…
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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 тридцать шесть старых газет? старые газеты is in…
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"У них родилось десять детей" and "У них родилось двое детей"

Why is the verb in the first sentence neuter? Is it because the "number" of children is considered a neuter word? Are there other cases when I need to use a neuter verb? What about the second one...would it be wrong to write "У них родилось два…
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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 another case (ex.: genitive четырёх) than "фактор"…
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