"наше яйцо"
Translation:our egg
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These really are valuable drills, Im picking up common patterns very quickly. Excellent.
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why was "our"=наш but now it is наше? what makes it change?
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All mean "our", and unfortunately these also have other forms. However: наш = masc.,наше = neuter., наша = fem., наши = plural
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Thanks. Are these endings (е=N а=F и=Pl) consistent across all the possessives pronouns etc.?
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Not really. Your (ты): Твой (m). Твоё (n), Твая(f). Твои(pl). His: его. Her:её.
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I should have known it wouldn't be that simple :-) Thanks for replying.
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But even so for the feminine and the neuter the same vowel ending is just undergoing palatalization there.
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Would it depend on the word that is being used or the person you are talking to? For example: I say "Your table" to a man. Does the "your" become "твая" because of the table being feminine, or is it "твой"?
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It only depends on the object's gender. In your example, the table (стол) is masculine. So you use твой стол to both a man or a woman.
Even the possessive pronoun depends on the gender of the nouns (masculin feminine neuter and plural) ex мой моя моё мои all refer to the possessive pronoun "my"
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How is яйцо pronounced? It is spelt yaytso but it sounds like yeytso?
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I had the same doubt. Check this pronuncation on Forvo: http://forvo.com/word/%D1%8F%D0%B9%D1%86%D0%BE/#ru
There are 5 pronunciations, the only one which was clear to me was the one by "Wellnews"
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яй is the "i" sound in "it", followed by a consonontal "y". [ɪj] if you know phonetic notation - [jɪjˈt͡so].
я, ё, and у are pronounced further forward in the mouth when they are followed by a soft sound, (sort of) like umlaut in German. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_phonology#Back_vowels
When followed by й, я becomes [ɪ]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_phonology#Diphthongs
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An egg? You were lucky. When I were a lad we used t' dream of having an egg. 15 of us used to live in a shoebox in t'middle of road, and eat a handful of hot gravel once a fortnight.
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Is there a pattern to which nouns are m/n/f? Like most Spanish words ending in -a are fem, most in -o are masc, that type of thing?
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Yes, there is.
- if it ends -a or я it's feminine.
- if it ends with a consonant, it's masculine.
- if it ends in -o or -e it's neuter.
- If it ends in ь it might be anything.... but usually it's feminine, so if you have to guess, go with f.
There are of course exceptions to all these, but as a rule of thumb this works.
The problem I encounter, is that this only works for nouns in the nominative case - so if the first time you encounter a word it's in genitive/accusative etc. the endings will be different, so you might need to look it up to find out the gender.
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Technically, if it ends in ь it can be masculine or feminine, but not neuter. So not anything, but still a pain :p
There are also some patterns you can learn with suffixes that end in -ь. For example, words ending in -ость are feminine while words ending in -тель are masculine.
When to use мы and when to use нас? Also when to use наш and when to use наше? And are there other words i should know of?
