Rhode nouns - a grammatical category, which manifests itself in the possibility of nouns combined with specific forms of negotiated words.Category kind can be expressed semantically (ie, within the meaning, only animate nouns), grammatically and syntactically.Semantically, all nouns are masculine, feminine and neuter.Words indicating the animals and males are masculine (brother, grandfather, student, goose, rooster, horse);nouns, naming animals and females (sister, grandmother, student, goose, chicken, horse) - the feminine;animals and persons without regard to sex (monster, a monster, a person (persons), child) - neuter.
Rhode nouns grammatically expressed by means of the end in the nominative case.This category is peculiar kind of like an animate and inanimate nouns inflected.In this case, in addition to the 3 main genera isolated also common genus.The differences between them are presented in the table:
| Masculine | feminine gender | neuter | total race |
| - ending zero, the foundation ends on hard consonantor th (chair hero); - ending zero, the base ends in a soft consonant, as in the genitive ending -a, th (horse - a horse, a doctor - a doctor, ivy - Ivy). | - ending -a -I (hand, land), but words calling males (servant, governor), and words with the suffix -in showing magnifying subjective assessment (Domino, Mostyn); - ending zero, the base ends in a consonant, as in the genitive ending -u (rye - rye, silence - the silence, notebook - a notebook). | - ending -o, -e (grain, sea); - word child, monster, monster face; - 10 heteroclite nouns -mya (tribe, time, name, flag, seed, stirrup, the udder, the crown, the burden, the flame); - some inanimate nouns indeclinable foreign origin (taboo taxi jury, stews, interviews, bra). | - ending -a, 'I have the words, calling a person of the male and female (Sonia, grouch, pig, rooster, a stutterer, idler, an orphan, suck-up, roar, ignorant). |
Syntactically determine gender of a noun can be negotiated in the form of speech, which is dependent on the noun.Thus, the communion of adjectives, ordinal numbers, consistent with the masculine nouns end in -s, matched, th (a beautiful garden, a singing boy, combat soldiers);a feminine noun - on the Star, -yaya (beautiful street, summer is time);with neuter nouns - to retracement, is its (beautiful sky, winter morning).Also kind of nouns is determined by the end of the predicate expressed by a verb in the past tense in the subjunctive or indicative mood, or a participle or an adjective concise.Masculine - the predicate has a zero ending (rain passed, the plan is made);feminine - end job (the job is finished, the moon rose);neuter - the ending -o (the letter is received, the sun rose).
There are indeclinable nouns.Most of them belong to the neuter (depot, interviews and all substantivized nesklonyaemy nouns such as "hello", "cheers", "yes", "tomorrow", "do not want").With the following exceptions:
- ha (hectare), coffee, poppies, penalties, suluguni, sirocco, ECU, tornadoes, shimmy, and the names of languages (Bengali, Urdu, Suomi, Pashtu, Hindi) - malegenus;
- Avenue Bere, salami, kohlrabi - feminine.
Rhode indeclinable nouns, such as place names, names of newspapers, magazines, can be determined by the nature of the noun with the value of the generic concept (deepest (Lake) Ontario, Japanese (city) Tokyo, wide (River) Mississippi published (newspaper) "The Times").Rhode abbreviations should be determined by the nature of the main word (MGU - masculine - Moscow State University, the United Nations - the feminine - the United Nations, the CIS - neuter - the Commonwealth of Independent States).Set genus nouns that are not used in the singular, but only in the plural, it is impossible, since they have no kind of category (pants forks, pasta, nursery).
