Speaker A
Hello and welcome to my channel. Lesson number four of my new course about Russian grammar.
Lesson 4 of a Russian grammar course: how to form plural nouns, covering masculine, feminine and neuter endings, stress shifts and exceptions.
Key Takeaways
- Most masculine nouns form the plural with -y after a hard consonant, and -i after g, k, kh, zh, sh, ch, shch.
- Feminine nouns ending in -a typically change to -y/-i in the plural, and some take -e endings.
- Stress placement often shifts in the plural, so learners should practice stressed vowels aloud.
- Some nouns exist only in the plural in Russian (e.g. chasy, ochki, dengi).
What the video covers
- Introduces Lesson 4 of a nine-month Russian grammar course focused on forming plural nouns.
- Explains that masculine nouns ending in a consonant usually take -y/-i (e.g. student → studenty), with stress notes.
- Explains that feminine nouns ending in -a or -ya take -y/-i or -e endings, using examples like gazeta → gazety and tetrad → tetradi.
- Shows that after the consonants g, k, kh, zh, sh, ch, shch the ending -i is used instead of -y.
- Covers masculine nouns ending in soft sign (slovar → slovari) and nouns ending in -e/-ye (muzey, plyazh → plyazhi), with stress changes.
- Discusses common stress mistakes, e.g. komnata (room) stressing the o, and how stress moves in plural forms.
- Introduces pluralia tantum words that exist only in plural, such as chasy (watch), ochki (eyeglasses) and dengi (money).
- Uses a pronoun table (on/ona/ono/ani) to organize gender and plural forms for learners.
- Encourages learners to repeat words aloud to improve pronunciation and speaking skills.
- Transcript contains repeated phrases and self-corrections, which reflect live recording rather than polished editing.
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Speaker A
Today we're going to talk about the plurals of nouns. If you know this topic, if you know how to make a noun plural in Russian language, stay here with us and work on your pronunciation.
Speaker A
Today we're going to talk about the plurals of nouns. If you know this topic, if you know how to make a noun plural in Russian language, stay here with us and work on your pronunciation.
Speaker A
So, number four Lesson number four out of three uh no, no, no, not 300. Sorry.
Speaker A
Pronounce all the words with me out loud. It will increase your speaking skills, your pronunciation skills, and your understanding skills. Let's start.
Speaker A
The plural plural of nouns. Nouns. And here we will make a table for us to be easier to understand everything and to write it down. We will have on anna on anna on anna anna he she and we will have ani
Speaker A
So, number four. Lesson number four out of three. Uh, no, no, no, not 300. Sorry.
Speaker A
a a bit later. So, on and on, let's start with student. Student, let's start with the noun in masculine student.
Speaker A
Just number four. And it's a nine-month course, from September to May, one academic year.
Speaker A
construction. Student, studenty. Student students. This is masculine, student. Student. Next will be feminine, gazeta.
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The plural of nouns. The plural, plural of nouns. Nouns.
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Gazety. Very easy till now, right? Masculine ends in a consonant, will receive uh feminine ends uh in a vowel, a or ya, will receive uh.
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And here we will make a table for us to be easier to understand everything and to write it down. We will have "on," "ona," "ono," and "ona," "he," "she," and we will have "ani," "ani," "ani."
Speaker A
So, uh dokument is pretty common, right? Let's make it plural. It will be dokumenty.
Speaker A
This one, "on," will end in a consonant, and will end in a consonant, or will be feminine, "ona," and "ani" will receive an "e" ending.
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A very common mistake here in this word is to stress a. But in the word komnata, which means room, o is stressed. So, pay attention to the vowel that are stressed, pronounce it a them a little bit longer, emphasize
Speaker A
About receiving an "e" ending, we will talk about it a bit later.
Speaker A
Another noun. Vopros. Another noun in masculine will receive -y in plural. Voprosy. Voprosy. Perfect. Vopros, voprosy. Ends in a consonant, ends in a consonant, a, and another consonant.
Speaker A
So, "on" and "on." Let's start with "student." "Student." Let's start with the noun in masculine: "student."
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Telefony. Telefony. Practice with me out loud, try to imitate my pronunciation. Telefony. And the last one will be another noun in feminine, mashina.
Speaker A
"Student." Ooh, ending. Of course, it will be "studenty" in plural. "Studenty." "Studenty" will receive an "uh" ending.
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mashina mashiny mashina is car and telephone, of course, means phone. Very good. Now, let's talk about um uh plural, but when the ending is i, not ui.
Speaker A
"Studenty." So, when we have a word in masculine that ends in a consonant, it will receive "uh" to make it plural. This is the most common construction.
Speaker A
When do we use i? We use i to make a noun plural after certain consonants. Let's write them down them down. After the consonant g, g k h sh ch sh and instead of a soft sign and instead of a soft sign
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"Student," "studenty." "Student," "students." This is masculine, "student."
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studentka studentka Feminine, right? Ends in a. So, according to this rule, we should replace a with u, right?
Speaker A
"Student." Next will be feminine, "gazeta." "Gazeta." "Gazeta."
Speaker A
So, this a will be replaced by e to make it plural. studentki This is feminine. studentki student girls, feminine. studentki, this is plural. So, after car, we'll use the e ending to make the noun plural.
Speaker A
A newspaper ends in a vowel. This is feminine. It will receive "uh" if we want to make it plural. "Gazety."
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tetradi tetradi mhm [clears throat] very good. Notebooks. tetradi, notebooks. khorosho, another example, slovar' slovar' slovar', dictionary. slovar', dictionary. And instead of the soft sign, we will replace the soft sign with e ending to make it plural. slovari, slovar', um, it's a very common thing
Speaker A
"Gazety." Very easy till now, right? Masculine ends in a consonant, will receive "uh." Feminine ends in a vowel, "a" or "ya," will receive "uh."
Speaker A
stress will move to e, slovari. Slovari. Dictionaries. Slovari. Dictionaries. Mhm. Horosho. Uchebnik. Uchebnik. Uchebnik.
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Next, "dokument." "Dokument." "Dokument."
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Uchebniki. As you can see here, for example, the stress stays on the same vowel.
Speaker A
In my lessons, I use only the most common words that we use every day. So, "dokument" is pretty common, right? Let's make it plural. It will be "dokumenty."
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continue. Let's try to few more examples. Also, we use e ending when we have a noun that uh that ends in e short.
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"Dokumenty." So, after a consonant: "documenty." Perfect.
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Geroy. Geroy. Go on. Make this noun plural. Geroy. It ends in e short, so we are going to replace it with e. Geroy.
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"Komnata." "Komnata." "Komnata," in plural, "komnaty." "Komnaty."
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Muzey. Ends in e short, so to make it plural, we have to replace this e short or to erase this hat here and to make it e. Muzey.
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A very common mistake here in this word is to stress the "a." But in the word "komnata," which means room, the "o" is stressed. So, pay attention to the vowels that are stressed. Pronounce them a little bit longer, emphasize it.
Speaker A
Uchebnik. No, uchebnik. We had uchebnik. Yeah. Um vrach. Vrach. Vrach. What do we do here? Vrach, a doctor. How to make it plural?
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"Komnata." "Komnata." "Komnaty." "Komnaty."
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Vrachi, to make it plural. Vrachi. And the stress goes to e. Here it's on a because it's only one vowel in this word. In plural, it will go to e.
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So, we have "student," "newspaper," "document," and "room." Khorosho. "Vopros."
Speaker A
Plyazh. Oh my god, I forgot about No way. No, we have to add zhe letter here as well. This letter, why didn't I add it?
Speaker A
Another noun. "Vopros." Another noun in masculine will receive "-y" in plural. "Voprosy." "Voprosy."
Speaker A
So plyazh will become plyazhe in plural. Plyazhe. Plyazhe. The stress stays on ya. Plyazhe beaches.
Speaker A
Perfect. "Vopros," "voprosy." Ends in a consonant, ends in a consonant, "a," and another consonant.
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Of course, it will receive e in plural. Orekh. Orekh. Nut, nuts. Orekh orekh. Orekh orekh.
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"Telefon." Te-le-fon. "Telefon." Ends in a consonant, so we'll add "-y." "Telefony." Te-le-fo-ny. "Telefony."
Speaker A
But, when they end in ya, they ya will be replaced by i, usually. Let's see some examples. For example, tyotya.
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Sorry, I wrote it in blue. "Telefony." "Telefony." Practice with me out loud. Try to imitate my pronunciation. "Telefony."
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Ya. So, tyotya means aunt. Tyotya aunt. Plural is tyoti. Tyoti. Tyoti. Tyotya, tyoti. Aunt aunts.
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And the last one will be another noun in feminine: "mashina." "Mashina."
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Uncles. So, when you have a noun that ends in ya, we will replace it by i to make it plural. Dyadya, dyadi.
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And "a" will be replaced by "ui," and to make it plural, "mashiny." "Mashiny." "Mashiny."
Speaker A
Let's continue. Davayte prodolzhim. And let's write some words that are only plural in Russian language. Do you know those words?
Speaker A
Okay, very good. This is the most common ending for plural. "Mashina," "mashiny." "Mashina" is car, and "telephone," of course, means phone. Very good.
Speaker A
chasy chasy In English we have only singular, right? For chasy, watch. We don't say watches. In Russian we have it only in plural, chasy.
Speaker A
Now, let's talk about the plural with the ending "i," not "ui." When do we use this ending to make the noun plural? "I" ending. "I." This is "ani" as well. "They," this is plural. "Ani." "They," plural.
Speaker A
[sighs and gasps] Uh some of the vowels are reduced more, some less. Here in this word a will be pronounced as e, chasy, watch.
Speaker A
When do we use "i"? We use "i" to make a noun plural after certain consonants. Let's write them down.
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Ochki eyeglasses. Ochki. Khorosho. And the last one is dengi money. dengi dengi dengi money.
Speaker A
After the consonants "g," "k," "kh," "sh," "ch," "shch," and instead of a soft sign, we will use the "i" ending to make a noun plural. Let's write some examples.
Speaker A
Uh spasibo bol'shoye za vnimaniye. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And in our next lesson we will talk about exceptions. We'll talk about exceptions that uh has have uh uh some endings that according to rule uh to the basic rule should be replaced
Speaker A
So, for example, "studentka." "Studentka." "Studentka." Feminine, right? Ends in "a." So, according to this rule, we should replace "a" with "u," right?
Speaker A
Chmokichmoki.
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