Russian Declension and Conjugation Chapter 9 Irregularities Neuter

Russian Declension and Conjugation Chapter 9: Irregularities

Neuter nouns in -я • Do you know what all these nouns mean? • There is one more we could add: дитя. Do you know how to decline it?

Neuter nouns in -я • Do you know what all these nouns mean? • There is one more we could add: дитя. Do you know how to decline it? • дитя , дитя ти, дитя тею

Pluralia tantum • How are they counted?

Pluralia tantum • They are counted using: одни , дво е, тро е, че тверо • Why is it hard to predict the Gpl form?

Pluralia tantum • They are counted using: одни , дво е, тро е, че тверо • It is hard to predict the Gpl form because we don’t know what the Nsg is (or its gender)

Declension of surnames • • • Do you know how to do all of these? -ин/-ов Adjectival -их, -аго, -ово, -енко, -V -C, -a

Let’s make all those plurals! • Give the plural forms for nouns on p. 142 • Note that most of the -ья plurals are for nouns that denote things that come in (often large) quantities • Note that some of these words have two semantically distinct plurals: зу б, зу бы, зу бья

Names for ethnic groups • Think of -анин as consisting of -ан (meaning ‘inhabitants of place X’) + -ин (meaning ‘one’) – Other examples of -ин meaning ‘one’ • штаны , штани на; горо х, горо шина; песо к, песчи на; брю ки, брю квина; ма к, ма ковина; осьми на • Npl -e, Gpl has zero ending, otherwise they are regular

Mnemonic poetry • Here’s a way to remember the four common feminine nouns in -ня that harden the Gpl: В тени этих вишен Пелись басен и песен Тысячи сотен

Summarizing… • Of irregularities affecting isolated case forms, what cases are involved? • Npl, Gpl (often for things that come in 2 s or big groups), GII (mass nouns), LII