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3.12 · Learn + reference

Instrumental Plural

Unified -ыми/-ими agreement and the long-adjective declension capstone

Unified -ыми/-ими agreement and the long-adjective declension capstone

Before you start

Prerequisites
Module 3.11
Estimated time
45 minutes
Lesson steps
10

Deliberately not taught here

  • Boundary: This completes long-form declension. Adjective-specific predication, comparison, meaning classes, derivation, and orthography follow in Modules 3.13-3.22.
Small steps

What you will learn

  1. The instrumental plural profile Every long adjective takes -ыми/-ими with a plural instrumental head.
  2. Choosing -ыми or -ими The diagnostic adjective families remain more reliable than a binary hard/soft label.
  3. Multiple means and channels Plural instrumental can enumerate tools, vehicles, media, body parts, or repeated means.
  4. Accompaniment with groups С + instrumental plural joins a subject with several companions, associated items, or grouped features.
  5. Plural roles, classifications, and states Instrumental plural describes roles or resulting classifications for plural subjects after common copular verbs.
  6. Plural spatial landmarks Instrumental plural follows над, под, пе́ред, за, and ме́жду when several landmarks define a stable position.
  7. Directed placement versus plural position The accusative/instrumental spatial contrast persists with plural landmarks.
  8. Quantified phrases in instrumental When a numeral phrase is instrumental, numeral, adjective, and noun all express instrumental plural.
  9. The long-adjective system on one grid Mastery means deriving a form from a grammatical profile, not reciting rows without a sentence.
  10. Long-form adjective mastery Integrate all twelve case-number profiles before moving to adjective-only systems.
Mastery

Ready means you can...

  • form -ыми/-ими across all adjective families and noun genders
  • use plural means, accompaniment, roles, and spatial landmarks
  • decline quantified phrases throughout the instrumental construction
  • integrate all twelve long-adjective case-number profiles
Next module 3.13 Short-Form Adjectives Predicate forms that agree in gender and number but do not decline for case