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Your direction of thoughts is right. But this particular rule is completely opposite to your conclusions. Ж and Ш are "hard" consonants so by ear И after them a
by netsuileo 6y ago
Your direction of thoughts is right. But this particular rule is completely opposite to your conclusions. Ж and Ш are "hard" consonants so by ear И after them always sounds like Ы. But the rule tells us to write И instead of Ы. This rule of Russian spelling does not make any sense that's why every first-grader knows it.
- pandaman 6y agoWhat do you know, I looked up and you are right - they are really considered "hard". Though, as a native speaker I thought them to be "soft" all my life! I figure the rule making them "hard" is arbitrary, not the и/ы.