Grammar Gender

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    Russian nouns are either masculine, feminine, or neuter. You can usually analyze a nouns gender by its ending:

    Masculine nouns end in a consonant. Bethink that ? is a consonant.

    Feminine nouns end in ? or ?.

    Neuter nouns end in ? or ?.

    Nouns catastrophe in ? can be adult or feminine. Theres no rule, you just accept to acquire these words.

    Plural nouns can be advised as a fourth gender.

    Masculine and feminine nouns about add ? (if masculine) or change ? to ? (if feminine). Those are alleged the harder endings. Words with bendable endings ? (masculine), ? (feminine), and ? (masculine or feminine) add ? (if masculine) or change ? to ? ( if feminine).

    Neuter nouns change ? to ? (hard ending), and change ? to ? (soft ending).

    However, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, and ?, you use ?, not ?. This 7-letter spelling aphorism aswell applies to adjectives. As a anamnesis aid, ?, ?, and ? are calm in the alphabet, and ?, ?, and ? are arresting at the aback of the mouth.

    Some adult nouns bead the endure beat afore abacus ? or ?. E.g., ??????? (present or gift) becomes ???????.

    Some adult nouns add a for plural. E.g., ??? (house) becomes ???? (houses).

    Words of adopted agent catastrophe in o, ?, or ? dont change amid atypical and plural. E.g., ????? agency radio or radios. Agenda that adopted nouns with these endings aswell dont change in prepositional case (e.g., Colorado, Kentucky, and Peru).