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Genitive Singular
Absence, reference, source, possession, small quantities, and restricted partitive forms
form the common masculine, feminine, and neuter genitive singular use genitive for absence, possession, source, separation, and common prepositions analyse one and two-to-four quantity phrases without confusing case and number recognise the restricted -у/-ю partitive and the variable genitive under verbal negation
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Complete Module 2.04 first
- Estimated time
- 50 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Plural absence and five-or-more quantities require genitive plural in 2.06. A full numeral-declension course is separate.
Small steps
What you will learn
- The genitive meaning network Genitive often places one entity relative to another: absent from a domain, belonging to a reference point, coming from a source, or measured as a quantity.
- Masculine endings -а and -я Hard consonant stems normally take -а; -й and soft -ь nouns normally take -я.
- Neuter endings and -мя nouns Regular neuters take -а/-я; -мя nouns expand the stem with -мен-.
- Feminine endings -ы and -и -а normally becomes -ы; ordinary -я and feminine -ь take -и, with a spelling restriction after seven consonants.
- Absence with нет, не было, and не будет Existential absence is the clearest high-frequency genitive construction.
- Possession, relationships, and part-whole reference A genitive noun can specify whose entity, which entity, what kind, or how much of a substance.
- У, source, separation, and other genitive prepositions Prepositions package recurring spatial and abstract relations; learn them with a representative phrase.
- One, two-to-four, and the count form In nominative and many inanimate accusative quantity phrases, numeral shape controls the following noun form.
- Partitive -у/-ю and genitive under negation Two advanced genitive phenomena are real but restricted; neither should become an automatic beginner rule.
- Genitive singular assessment Identify the genitive relation, then form the singular pattern and check stress or lexical restriction.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- form the common masculine, feminine, and neuter genitive singular
- use genitive for absence, possession, source, separation, and common prepositions
- analyse one and two-to-four quantity phrases without confusing case and number
- recognise the restricted -у/-ю partitive and the variable genitive under verbal negation