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what are the words? I'm curious but not knowing russian I have no idea how to even search for this
by gcb0 8y ago
what are the words? I'm curious but not knowing russian I have no idea how to even search for this
- Symbiote 8y agoJust look the word up in a dictionary and find the declension box. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%8... So kočergá, kočergí, kočerjóg. English declension is so simple we don't include this information in a typical dictionary entry. ("Poker, pokers, poker's, pokers'")
- tom_mellior 8y ago"Just" looking it up occurred to me too, but that table doesn't help if you don't also point out that for some reason it's entry for the genitive plural that we're looking for.
- hamstergene 8y agoAll Russians agree on this: 1 kocherga = одна кочерга 2,3,4 kochergas = две,три,четыре кочерги But then it gets ambiguous: 5 kochergas = пять кочерёг? 5 kochergas = пять кочерг? 5 kochergas = пять кочерыг? 5 kochergas = пять кочерег? All of those sound both correct and yet awkward. The first one is officially correct (and I have no idea why).