"моё яблоко"

Translation: my apple

[henki3]

Why is my here моё instead of мои?
Did I miss something?

[dutchie451165]

мои is for plural..мои yablaki (my apples)

[thekatmorgan]

In the nominative case it works like this..

Мой - masculine noun
Моя - feminine noun
Моё - neuter noun
Мои - plural noun

[Kyrgan]

Thanks, I wish Duolingo would have an info icon where you tap on it and are provided with an explanation on usage

[benjaboy12]

Couldn't agree more, duolingo should do a better job at explaining how the language works, not just giving us the words and what they mean.

[MateusViccari]

That would be cool but also that's why we have the comments section, so far i always found someone explaining in every case i had doubts.

[henki3]

I get it :) Thanks Kat

[RamosRobb]

What is the difference in pronounciation between Мой and Мои ?

[Lea.1717]

I think мой is pronounced like "moy" while мои is pronounced more like "mo-ee".

[SLCk14]

мой = moy, он
Мои = mayi, они

[Elcan340013]

Thanks

[henki3]

Thanks I get it! Nice stroopwafel :)

[dutchie451165]

Finally some recognition for my avatar!!! :D

[henki3]

Stroopwafels are the best :)

[Pikachu025]

Yesssssss, chocolate stroopwaffles are the best!

[1000abrikosy]

Большое спасибо, Ольга!

[Dimidov]

Do you pronounce "моё" as "mayo"? Is this correct?

[ns_shadow]

Yes, this is correct :)

[Dimidov]

Thank you! :)

[LongHenry]

transliteration is off again. ё is again transliterated as ё not yo

[Zinthak]

They still haven't altered it to compensate still. I'm not sure why not.

[Kornellier]

Are there any patterns to know if a word is masculine, feminine or neuter?

As a suggestion (I know this is still a beta), I'd put a lesson to teach genres before introducing possessives; at least I'd find it helpful!

[ns_shadow]

Here is a good pattern http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_gender.php :)

I can add only that if a word ends with "шь", "щь", "жь" or "чь" it is feminine. And if it ends with "ш", "щ", "ж", "ч" it is masculine :)

And also there are a few neutral words (время, имя, пламя... ) ending with "я".

[d3uw7]

Очень большое Спасибо

[GeneM.]

Starting to see how Ukrainian and Russian are similar яблуко (Ukr.) and яблоко (Rus.). I try not to confuse them although I hear that both languages are mixed in a certain dialect in Ukraine. That's also why I'm learning both on Duo because nearly all Ukrainian speaking people can speak Russian too. I've also heard that Polish is even closer to Ukrainian than Russian.

[Ahzs12]

It is

[awawe1]

Don't you mean OUR apple?! "союз нерушимый республик свободных..."

[Heymateoverthere]

Сплотила навеки великая русь

[Jeffrey855877]

In the fast audio, моё is being pronounced as моя

[1000abrikosy]

So, "яблоко" is neuter?

[alinarj7]

Yes. Otherwise моё wouldn't have been used :)

[jumpthewalls]

So are food items usually neuter?

[alexm768]

There is no such correlation. Яблоко (neuter), груша pear (feminine), огурец cucumber (masculine), морковь carrot (feminine), хлеб bread (masculine), масло butter (neuter), молоко milk (neuter), вода water (feminine), чай tea (masculine), кофе coffee (masculine), соль salt (feminine), перец pepper (masculine), мясо meat (neuter), курица chicken (feminine), колбаса sausage (feminine), etc.

However, you can find that the nouns with -о ending are neuter in general.

[ns_shadow]

No :) Unfortunately, there is a diversity here :)

[elitevlad]

lol i put my drinking instead of my apple

[Deni_Velikova]

Why was "apple" with моя in the first part and now it suddenly changed to моё? Did I miss something?

[LeoSantana373345]

whats the difference between (моё) and (мой)?

[ValentinSe14370]

We have two words for My: мой а моё, is мой = моё; when to use мой and when to use моё?

[cameron241060]

Suck