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@HauptmannF - You would use these to say "my X" regardless of who you are speaking to. There's no formal or informal version of this.
It declines to meet the gender, case and number of the noun it modifies.
these different forms of personal ownership are killing me.... learn, stupid ! :D
It has to do with whether or not the subject is masculine, feminine or neuter. By the looks of things it appears not to be as hard as French (for me at least). http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_gender.php
Wow this is actually neat. German is different because you have to learn most of the words and if they're masculine/feminine/neuter. Thanks man!
It's really not that bad. It's all spelling in Russian. The only ones you really have to properly memorize like German or French are the words ending in a soft sign (ь)
моя кошка = my cat
моя = my (feminine)
кошка = cat (feminine)
мой is masculine so мой кот would be a male cat
hope this helps
What I'm confused is how to pronounce "кошка". Is it pronounced as "koshka" or "koshkam"??
@HauptmannF - Koshka is the nominative case, koshkam is the dative plural.
"koshka tam!" - The cat is there.
"daj koshkam korm" - Give the cats food.
Why is that "o" letter sometimes sounds like "oh" and other times more like "ah"? Is there a way to know which is which?
O's are pronounced as "Ah's" when they are not stressed in a word ("молоко" sounds like ma-la-ko), она sounds like ah-na. Just gotta memorize it... good luck!
Since "cat" in the sentence is "кашка", then that means that "cat" alone or in a sentence with "моя" is "кошка", then that means "cat", but if the sentence is more specific or longer than two words, then that means that "If your specific about a person, than "cat" will be "кот", but if you aren't, and only use "Plural Noun" "Cat", or use "cat" in front of "My" (Моя, Мои, and Мой), then "cat" will be "кашка." Hope this makes sense.
It's determined by the gender of the noun in possession. моя = Feminine мой = Masculine моё = Neuter мои = Plural
So if using "моё кошка" the gender of the cat is not specifically defined? And with "моя кошка" it is specified as female? Correct?
@Emanuell694179 - The noun itself specifically has a grammatical gender, it doesn't necessarily have to do with the gender of the thing. In this case you can either have кот (мой - masculine) or кошка (моя - feminine). There can never be a моё кот / моё кошка. If you don't know the gender of the animal you're safe to just roll with one or the other though usually they would say кошка.
@KeshavGoya15 - Кошка is a strictly feminine noun, so it requires feminine adjectives.
I literally wrote "Моя кошка" and it said I'm wrong, because in the right answer the M isn't capitalized? Seriously? Is this a bug? Screenshot: https://ibb.co/Ld3KQkn
