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Nominative Plural
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Nominative Plural
Gender-neutral plural agreement, -ые/-ие, irregular noun stems, and multi-adjective phrases
Gender-neutral plural agreement, -ые/-ие, irregular noun stems, and multi-adjective phrases
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 3.01
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: Animate accusative plural later uses genitive plural, not nominative plural. This module keeps the phrase in subject, naming, or predicative nominative functions.
Small steps
What you will learn
- Plural agreement neutralises gender In the plural, one adjective form serves masculine, feminine, and neuter head nouns.
- The hard ending -ые Transparent hard stems take nominative plural -ые.
- The genuinely soft ending -ие Soft-family adjectives take nominative plural -ие.
- Spelling-rule plurals also use -ие After г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, щ, Russian writes и rather than ы in this ending position.
- Stress and irregular noun plurals Agreement regularity does not regularise a noun's plural stem or stress.
- Plural-only and indeclinable nouns Adjective agreement can reveal grammatical information that the noun itself does not display.
- Several adjectives in one phrase Every coordinated or stacked adjective agrees with the same head noun.
- Plural subjects and long predicates A long adjective can be an attribute or part of a nominal predicate.
- Singular-to-plural transformation strategy Transform the head noun and every agreeing word, then restore lexical noun stress.
- Nominative plural assessment Form the adjective, retrieve the noun plural, and preserve the phrase's syntactic role.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- form nominative plural adjectives across the main diagnostic families
- explain why plural endings no longer distinguish gender
- combine adjectives with irregular, plural-only, and indeclinable nouns
- build and transform complete plural noun phrases