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Feminine Nouns
- Includes those ending in 'а' or 'я', except for those referring to males.
- Most nouns ending in ь (soft sign) are female
- Most nouns referring to females, regardless of ending.
- Pronoun: она
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Masculine Nouns
- Normally end with consonant or 'й'.
- Some ending in ь are masculine, i.e. день
- Most nouns referring to males including proper names.
- Days, towns and languages are included.
- Pronoun: он
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Neuter Nouns
- End in 'о' or 'е'
- Includes those ending in 'и' 'у' and 'ю' which are often foreign borrowed words.
- Pronoun: оно
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Russian does not have a verb for the present tense of _______
'to be' (am, is, are, etc..)
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How are articles such as 'a' and 'the' indicated in Russian?
They are implied by the noun since Russian does not have articles.
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What are the three Russian genders and their pronouns?
- Male (ои - he)
- Female (оиа - she)
- Neuter (оио - it)
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What are the eight Russian personal pronouns?
- ты - You (familiar)
- вы - You (unfamiliar or plural)
- мы - We
- я - I
- он - he
- она - she
- оно - it
- они - they
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Russian infinitive verb forms (i.e. to walk, to speak) normally end in ______
-ть
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To conjugate a verb in Russian is to ....
Determine the stem or basic form of the verb and apply the correct ending based on the pronoun.
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How is the verb stem found in the majority of Russian verbs?
- By removing the -ть from the end.
- Example: знать 'to know', stem: зна я знаю 'I know.' Вы знаете 'You know.'
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What three pronouns always result in the same verb ending?
он/она/оно
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What are the conjugations for the verb знать (to know)?
- я - ю
- ты - ешь
- он/она/оно - ет
- мы - ем
- вы - ете
- они - ют
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If е is stressed in a verb ending, it becomes the letter _____
ё
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A syllable with the letter _____ is always stressed.
ё
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A verb is negated in Russian by _______
- Putting the word не before the word.
- я не знаю (I don't know.)
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