Everything you MUST know about gender of nouns in Russian

my name is Fedor and today you will learn a crucial rule in Russian without which you cannot make proper sentences and that rule is gender of nouns in Russian all objects have a gender imagine that this t-shirt has a gender this microphone has a gender my nose has a gender that's different from my lips for example okay everything has a gender and in Russian four things will be affected by the gender of nouns nouns themselves verbs adjectives and numbers but nouns will be the leader of that pack nouns will set the tone but verbs numbers and adjectives will follow they will mimic the gender of that noun for example lemon for a lemon lemon is masculine if we use an adjective to describe lemon let's say lemon beautiful lemon because lemon is masculine is masculine too let's take a verb lemon lemon FAL here is also masculine because lemon is masculine and then Ain lemon one lemon Ain is also masculine because lemon is masculine so lemon the noun will set the trend the rest will follow but how can you tell a gender of a noun how do I know that is masculine well we simply look at the very last letter here's a table for you it's masculine if it ends on a consonant it's feminine if it ends on a or y i being the most common it's neuter if it ends on or or year and it's plural if it ends on E or E look at the very last letter of the word now let me see if you can retain this information in your head a word s a wall which gender is sinina sin is going to be feminine because of this a ending what about Moria the ca which gender is Moria Moria is neuter because it has a yeah at the end and lastly what about the word Mish for a mouse which gender is mish m is going to be feminine but this one is a trick question we didn't learn the words that end on the soft sign which gender are those words trick question for you well words that end on the soft sign we cannot predict their gender there's no way of us knowing just by looking at a brand new word but most commonly we're going to have them to be feminine like mus is feminine sometimes they're going to be masculine and in a very rare occasions they might be Neer if you see a word that you don't know yet like mush for example just guess it to be feminine you're going to be correct more often than not and another exception to this rule of gender of telling a gender is real people the gender of an actual person or a living thing trumps this rule of the endings in Russian for example dushka grandfather dushka ends on a here but dushka is going to be masculine because it describes a male person same with papa for example dad same exact thing ja Uncle it should be feminine because it ends on a yah but it's masculine because it describes an uncle okay and that's it for the theory of Russian gender the best way to master this concept and to look at a word and intend like this is through exercise that we have a ton of on our beefin class platform check it out with the first link in the description if you want to truly Master this topic and never forget all this theory that we have learned learned but more importantly applied in practice successfully join us with the first link in the description next how do verbs get affected by this gender in Russian verbs in Russian get affected by the gender only in the past tense for example let's take a verb IG right masculine would be igal feminine igala neut igala and plural igali depending on the gender will have a different ending but only for the past tense for the present for the future it doesn't matter so we simply take a look at the noun that we're describing see its gender and then we choose the right form of the verb in the past tense I can say I play the guitar because I'm a guy I use a masculine form word my mom played on the piano igala has a lot ending because it's feminine okay hope that makes sense it's going to work in the same exact way with other verbs as well not just witha Etc to watch to read Etc all other verbs will work in the same exact way now let's move on to how adjectives get affected by the gender adjectives will describe nouns and so it's obvious that they have to follow the form of the noun and we can make the same exact table for adjectives too masculine feminine NE plural so again depending on the gender of the noun this word is describing choose one of these forms I can say what a beautiful painting what a beautiful see so we change the form of like this right here is for neuter because is neuter too the adjectives will kind of mimic the gender of the noun that they're describing and finally numbers how do numbers change depending on the gender in Russian only two numbers get affected is one and two for masculine one is Adin two is D but for feminine is adna and D masculine in fact will take on a default form of the numbers so it's truly only the feminine one adna and get changed masculine is just used here for reference for you okay we can sayin one cup Adel one plate as you can see ad here is used because Tela is feminine but that's really it about Russian gender and the best best way to master this concept of gender for a good long time is with exercise right here we have a ton of exercise on beefing class join us and practice this gender telling in Russian with exercises or keep on watching our YouTube videos with this next video

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 28 2023