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Accusative Plural
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Accusative Plural
Animacy selects between a known nominative form and a known genitive form
Animacy selects between a known nominative form and a known genitive form
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 3.06
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: Plural gender is neutralised. The decisive new feature is grammatical animacy; lexical noun irregularities remain part of the noun system.
Small steps
What you will learn
- The two-way accusative plural rule All plural adjective phrases divide by animacy, regardless of the singular noun's gender.
- Inanimate: copy nominative plural Objects denoting ordinary things, places, events, and abstract notions use -ые/-ие.
- Animate: copy genitive plural People and most animals take -ых/-их with the genitive-plural noun form.
- Animacy belongs to the head noun Adjectives do not carry an independent real-world animacy judgment; they copy the grammatical animacy of the head.
- Irregular animate plurals Irregularity normally sits in the noun; the adjective still uses ordinary -ых/-их.
- Direct-object verbs and lexical case A transitive verb supplies accusative only when its construction actually takes a direct object.
- Plural destinations В and на with movement toward endpoints select accusative; destination nouns are normally inanimate and therefore retain nominative-plural adjective forms.
- Mixed phrases and coordination Each coordinated noun phrase receives the accusative form appropriate to its own head.
- Case analysis under syncretism Accusative plural may look nominative or genitive, so analysis must remain construction-based.
- Accusative plural assessment Select the construction first, then make animacy control the whole phrase.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- select accusative plural from a verb or destination construction
- apply the plural animacy rule to every long adjective in the phrase
- form animate objects with known genitive-plural adjective forms
- distinguish direct objects, destinations, and look-alike cases