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Prepositional Plural
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Prepositional Plural
Regular plural agreement in locations, topics, settings, and motion contrasts
Regular plural agreement in locations, topics, settings, and motion contrasts
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 3.07
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: The adjective pattern is regular; choice between в and на and the noun's lexical plural remain separate vocabulary and usage questions.
Small steps
What you will learn
- Prepositional plural agreement After a preposition selecting the prepositional case, every long adjective uses -ых/-их with a plural head.
- Spelling families in -ых/-их Use the same diagnostic selection learned in genitive plural.
- Location with в В + prepositional locates people or things inside places, domains, documents, or bounded settings.
- Location and setting with на На + prepositional describes many surfaces, events, institutions-as-activities, islands, and conventional settings.
- Topics with о, об, and обо Topic phrases use prepositional case; the preposition's shape responds to the following sound, not to adjective agreement.
- Plural-only and invariant nouns An adjective can reveal case and number even when the noun is plural-only or does not decline.
- Irregular noun plurals remain local The adjective is predictable even when the noun has a special plural stem or ending.
- Destination versus location in the plural В/на + accusative answers куда́?; в/на + prepositional answers где?
- Distinguishing identical adjective forms Forms in -ых/-их require construction-level analysis because they occupy several paradigm cells.
- Prepositional plural assessment Build regular -ых/-их forms, then prove each case from its governor and head noun.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- form -ых/-их with plural prepositional nouns
- build location and topic phrases with в, на, and о/об
- distinguish prepositional plural from syncretic genitive and accusative forms
- construct complete phrases with plural-only and irregular nouns