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- "Кошки пьют воду?"
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Lars200
364
How come the stress in воду is in the first syllable whereas it's on the last in вода? Is there any rule involved here?
Nouns have several patterns. "Вода", in particular, is ending-stressed in singular except Accusative, and stem-stressed in plural and in the Accusative case when it's singular. I guess, moving stress makes it a bit easier to hear the contract immediately.
English has a ton of very short words: pot, pat, pet, pit, put, pup, pep, pap, pip, pop, bet, bit, bat, but, bot. Russian is a bit more generous.
CyrLee
44
Cats drink water = кошки пьют водУ. Cats drink a little bit OF water = кошки пьют немного водЫ.