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Nominative Singular
The agreement compass: head nouns, gender, diagnostic forms, spelling, and stress
The agreement compass: head nouns, gender, diagnostic forms, spelling, and stress
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 1 verb foundations · Module 2 noun cases
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: This module introduces long adjectives. Short predicates, comparison, possessive mixed forms, and full editorial spelling are taught later.
Small steps
What you will learn
- What an adjective contributes A long adjective describes or classifies a referent while copying the grammatical profile of its head noun.
- Find the head before the ending Agreement follows the grammatical head, not the nearest translation or the most visually prominent word.
- Masculine -ый, -ий, and stressed -ой The visible masculine ending identifies a diagnostic form, but -ий does not name one single pattern.
- Feminine -ая and -яя Feminine nominative singular separates the ordinary hard and genuinely soft patterns clearly.
- Neuter -ое and -ее Neuter agreement supplies another high-value diagnostic form.
- The transparent hard family но́вый is the most reusable model, but it is a model rather than a universal default.
- The genuinely soft family си́ний supplies the productive soft model: -ий, -яя, -ее.
- Spelling-rule and stressed families High-frequency adjectives combine morphology with consonant spelling and lexical stress.
- Stress, pronunciation, and phrase order Agreement is not mastered until a learner can say and hear the phrase as one prosodic unit.
- Nominative singular assessment Identify the head, copy gender, choose the diagnostic family, and preserve spelling and stress.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- identify the head noun that controls adjective agreement
- form masculine, feminine, and neuter nominative singular phrases
- distinguish hard, genuinely soft, spelling-rule, and stressed adjective families
- use stress and pronunciation as part of the stored adjective paradigm