Hi everyone! Welcome to my channel, my name is Alina and I'm your Russian teacher here. Today I want to discuss a very important Russian topic, the most
important Russian topic - that's our genders. How to identify the gender of Russian nouns with
soft sign at the end. I'm sure you already saw these words and you don't know how to identify
the gender of these words. Today I'm gonna give you a few tips how we can remember what gender
it is: masculine or feminine. And now let's start! In this video I won't be talking about genders
in general, how to identify the gender of other Russian nouns. Here we'll be talking only about
soft sign and words with soft sign at the end. The general rule you can find in my video in
udemy course. There you can watch it for free if you open my course by the link that I leave you
in description of this video. And there you will find everything you need to know about genders in
general. I talk about words with soft sign at the end in that video too but there I'm saying that
usually we need to remember the gender of words with soft sign at the end. Today I want to give you
a few tips how we can remember the words better. Because we do have some rules about this topic. So
in reality it's not that complicated and we have some logic even here. And now let's look at these
little tips that can help you. The first one. Let's talk about masculine nouns. Before I should tell you that words with soft sign at the end can be masculine or feminine, they never are neutral. So
here it's 50/50. And now let's look at the words, at the masculine words. All words that ends in АРЬ, ТЕЛЬ will be masculine. Usually they are professions, such professions as: воспитатель, учитель, преподаватель, строитель, аптекарь, библиотекарь, руководитель, писатель, секретарь, вратарь. All of them are masculine. But some of them that end in АРЬ, ТЕЛЬ, they are not professions but they are also masculine. Such words as: выключатель, зритель, основатель, победитель, покупатель, посетитель, свидетель, читатель, календарь, словарь. All these words are masculine. And the
second group of masculine words these are our months. So all months with soft sign
at the end and other ones that don't have soft sign at the end, they are all masculine
in general. Январь, февраль, апрель, июнь, июль, сентябрь, октябрь, ноябрь, декабрь. All of them are masculine. Ok, that's it for
masculine and now let's look at feminine words. All words that end in ОСТЬ, ЕСТЬ will be feminine. Жидкость, радость, новость, скорость, специальность, свежесть. Then three words that end in ЗНЬ.
Болезнь, жизнь, казнь.
Also these are feminine. The next group will end in СТЬ.
Власть, грусть, кисть, кость, часть. Than a few words with СЬ at the end.
Запись, подпись, роспись. The next group will have ВЬ at the end.
Бровь, кровь, морковь, любовь, обувь, церковь. Then two words with ПЬ at the end.
Степь, цепь. And last one with БЬ at the end.
Дробь, прорубь. That's it. These are little tips that can help you to
remember some of the words, if they are feminine or masculine. The rest unfortunately we need to learn by heart. We don't have any endings, any suffixes that can help us to identify the gender. So you will see now a few more words and you will need to remember by heart, if they are masculine or feminine. That's it! I hope it was helpful and now
it'll be a little bit easier for you to know what words you see, if they are feminine or
if they are masculine. I know it's not that easy to take all these words and to remember all
of them but try to do it step by step. Try to take first those words that I gave you with
the endings, with the suffixes and then you can take the words that have no logic, that
you need just to memorize. That's it! Thank you very much for watching, subscribe to my channel and learn Russian with me!
