Means of Expression of the Category of Number in Russian NounsBrandner, Ales
Agreement with nouns You will have to know the genders and plural forms of nouns because they influence the use of adjectives and pronouns. The basic rule is that Russian adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number and cases. Take a look at how the adjectiveкрасив...
When translating from a language which does not have distinction in number (singular/plural) or an indication of definiteness for nouns (Japanese), into a language which does have these distinctions (Dutch), it is not straightforward to make these decisions. This problem in machine translation is...
; in other languages the noun may have the form of the singular in such constructions (Hungariankönyv, “book,”tu könyv, “ten books,”sok könyv, “many books”). In many Asian and American languages the plural of nouns used in constructions containing a numeral is expressed by ...
A set of rules has been constructed to resolve the ambiguity of the grammatical number of certain Russian nouns. These rules were tested on 2,655 ambiguous nouns taken from a 30,152 word text in the field of physics. By making certain modifications, the validity of the rules was increased ...
in this respect:bicycle, bigraph, Bactrian camel, couple, duo… And second, there are languages with number systems roughly comparable to that of English in which the equivalents ofbinocularsandtrousersare normal count nouns: Russianbinokl’, Frenchpantalon. While pluralia tantum are of continuing...
range of facts requires instead a domain-based approach to locality (cf. Moskal2015b). In the realm of number, suppletion of pronouns behaves as expected, but a handful of examples for suppletion in nouns show a pattern that is initially unexpected, but which is, however, consistent with ...
The Russian vocabulary has in this period been greatly replenished; a large number of obsolete words have dropped out of the vocabulary; the meaning of a great many words has changed; the grammatical system of the language has improved. 在这个时期内,俄语大大地增加了词汇;有很大一批陈旧的词从...
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase. Operators, or verbal false limbs. These save the trouble of picking out appropriate verbs and nouns, and at...
Russia, within the boundless reaches of Homeland Russian Dec 24, 2018 #1 Hello everyone! Nevertheless, there have been a number of significant improvements in their situation in the last two months. Here is unclear, why is used 'have' while we having 'a number' after 'been'. Or 'a...