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, -ко, -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 2s or big groups), GII (mass nouns), LII