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Grammar

Kosareva E.V.
Assistant Professor of the Department for Russian as a
Foreign Language
The Noun

• The question кто? Examples:  


is asked about Кто? Что?
animate nouns
(words denoting
persons or animals)
• The question что?
is asked about
inanimate nouns
(words denoting
Антóн Пáнда Дом ˊ
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objects)
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

In Russian, there are Он Онá Онó


three types of nouns:
masculine feminine neuter
feminine, masculine мужской род женский род средний род
and neuter

студéнт студéнтка письмó


Антóн Áнна
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• All nouns have at the end


consonants, soft sign
or vowels -А, -Я, -О, -Е

Стол Дом
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• All nouns have at the end


consonants, soft sign
ОН ОН
or vowels -А, -Я, -О, -Е

• Words with consonant


ending are masculine
and instead of them
we can use pronoun ОН

Стол Дом
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with endings -А, -Я


are feminine

Мáма ˊ
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Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with endings -А, -Я


are feminine
ОНА ОНА
• Instead of them we can
use ОНА

Мáма ˊ
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Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with endings


-О or -Е are neuter

Окнó Мóре
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with endings


-О or -Е are neuter
ОНО ОНО
• Instead of them
we can use ОНО

Окнó Мóре
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with soft sign


at the end could be
masculine or feminine,
but what are they you
need to remember

Словáрь Дверь
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Words with soft sign


at the end could be
ОН ОНA
masculine or feminine,
but what are they you
need to remember

Словáрь Дверь
Gender of Nouns in the Singular

• Some nouns ending


in -А, -Я are masculine
because they designate
male persons

Examples:  

Пáпа, дéдушка, дя́ д я,

мужчи́ на, Сáша, Кóля


Listen and Repeat

ОН ОНА ОНО ОН

Дом Мáма Окнó Словáрь


St Petersburg
University

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