relates to the topic of declension in Russian. In English, there's only 2 forms - e.g. 1 cookie, but N cookies (where N>=2). Imagine that for 3 cookies you woul

relates to the topic of declension in Russian. In English, there's only 2 forms - e.g. 1 cookie, but N cookies (where N>=2). Imagine that for 3 cookies you would have something special again, like 3 cookises, and so on. In Russian, the word "kocherga" has quite intuitive forms for 1, 2, 3, 4, but when it comes to 5, our intuition breaks down, because the word is unlike any other, so it's difficult to reason by analogy. (This word is really a special case; normally, it's very easy to find the right ending). That's why they chose to put it as 3 kochergi+2 kochergi - just to be on the safe side (BTW, grammatically correct form would be "5 kochereg", which sounds really funny for a native Russian speaker)