Nominative singular assessment
Identify function, gender, and pattern before trying to name an ending.
- Assessment
- Find the nominative subject: На столе́ лежи́т тетра́дь.
- Give the gender and family of слова́рь.
- Give the gender and family of па́па.
- Complete: Э́то ___. (museum)
- Explain why окно́ and мо́ре belong to the same broad declension family.
- Name the diagnostic bundle recommended for a new noun.
- Answers and explanations
- тетра́дь: it is not introduced by a preposition and controls the verb as subject.
- Masculine, second-declension / masculine soft-sign pattern.
- Masculine gender, but the -а/-я / first-declension ending family.
- Э́то музе́й.
- Both are neuter members of the broad second-declension system, though their visible stems differ.
- Gender, animacy, nominative singular, genitive singular, nominative plural, genitive plural, and stress behaviour.
- Ready signal: Continue when you can classify an unfamiliar noun without treating its last letter as the whole explanation.
Apply this next
- Retrieve the rule without looking, then continue to the next lesson.