How to determine the declension of nouns in Russian

A deviation is a change in nouns with cases and numbers. What were they installed for? How to determine the declension of nouns? This article will tell you about this.

Why do we need declensions?

If all scientific works concerning the Russianlanguage, combine in any one collection, you will get a multivolume edition. So, maybe, it is not necessary to overload linguistics with superfluous concepts? Therefore, before you answer the question of how to determine the declension of nouns, you need to understand what its essence and meaning are. It is this category that makes it possible to understand what kind of ending it is necessary to put in a word when changing cases.

And if it is easy for adults to determine this, then children often find it difficult to solve this problem.

How to determine the declension of nouns?

For this, there are separate signs. The table shown below will help determine the declination. It contains the distinctive characteristics of each of the three kinds of nouns.

Declination
The first		The second		The third
Genus	The ending in the nominative	Genus	The ending in the nominative	Genus	The ending in the nominative
Female, male, general	-and I	Male	Zero	Women's	Zero
		Average	-o, -e
Country, youth, quiet		Day, the sea (the exception is the way)		Joy

So, if you need to quickly determine the declination, the table will help you.

Are there any exceptions?

The division of all nouns by declensionis a fairly reasonable theory. But is everything so smooth? Often the question arises as to how to determine the declension of nouns that end in -yam. And what to do with the word-exception "way"? Now we'll figure it out. There is such a thing as a different noun. Such a name they received due to the fact that it is impossible due to their specificity to apply the general rules. If these nouns are put in any cases, it can be seen that in some cases they acquire the endings of different declensions. We denote all such cases. For example, nouns that terminate in nouns (flame, burden, udder, time, name, banner, tribe, stirrup, seed and crown) are included in the verse, as well as the words "path" and "child." In addition to them, in Russian there are also words that do not have either the plural or the ability to change. Such expressions are called indeclinable. Most of them are words borrowed from other languages. Looking at the table below, you can easily understand this issue.

Inherited nouns
Borrowed words with endings -u, -e, -y, -o; -a (only if it is stressed); for a consonant sound	Some abbreviations	Some place names	Surnames with endings -enko, -ko; -ago, -you, -yh, -yago, -ih; on a consonant sound (if called females); with accent on the last syllable
Potpourri, cafe, kangaroo, metro; Role; madame	UN, GIBBD	Sochi, Baku	Borisenko, Shevchenko; Zhivago, Blagovo, Black, Polish; Hugo, Diderot

Such nouns can be used in any case, but they remain unchanged.