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Where is the stress in 'окна'? Here it sounds like it's on O but when I look it up it says that it's on the A. Is this a mistake on this site?
It's not the nominative case, it's genitive singular, used with numbers from 2 to 4
For declension, see the link http://starling.rinet.ru/morph.htm
Can be confusing.
First, remember that две/два requires a genitive singular.
Second, remember that in all singular cases of окно́, the stress is on the second syllable. So the genitive singular sounds окна́. The English ear hears two 'a's, I suppose.
For the sake of completion, note that all cases of the plural have the stress on the first syllable. So the nominative plural may look identical to the genitive singular, but it sounds о́кна. You hear 'o' and 'a.'
The stress is correct in the normal version, but in the slow version the software is confused as to which declension of the word it is supposed to speak and opts for the nominative/accusative plural where the stress is indeed о́кна. Can't get 'em all right I suppose :-)
In nominative and animate accusative the numeral “2” has two forms: «две» for feminine nouns and «два» for everything else:
- две подруги, руки́, судьбы́, ...
- два друга, стола, окна́, ...
Thank you!
A bit surprising for me who learned Slovak first where it's dva for masculine and dve for feminine + neuter.
(Does Russian also have a special masculine personal form of the number like dvaja in Slovak?)
The number 2 has a collective numeral form, «дво́е», which looks very similar to dvaja. While you're not required to always use it when talking about animate nouns, it doesn't work too well with inanimate nouns (except for pluralia tantum nouns). There are also some other restrictions, like you can't use it with feminine nouns, although the collective numeral «оба/обе» works fine with them.
«Два учи́теля» and «двое учителе́й» are very similar in meaning, but there is a subtle distinction in whether you view them as a single group or as a collection of individuals (hopefully that makes sense).
So one window is окно but two windows is окна for some reason. Don't know what gender this word is but okay.....
It's neuter, and окна is the genitive singular form. Neuter nouns in -о always end in -а in the genitive singular.
If I understood correctly, only after 2, 3 and 4 (and numbers that end in 2, 3 and 4).
And with numbers 5, 6, 7, and so on we use genitive plural - 5 окон, 10 окон, 100окон
It is not very clear the explanation given in Tips and notes about how to fit the numbers with the nouns!
Is the speaker merging these two words it sounds like davarkna until you slow it down.
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Well. 5 months later it sounds perfect. I have concentrated on listening to the fast part, and it seems to have really worked! Thanks Duo.
I have repeated this numerous times, and my Russian friends say that I pronounce it perfectly, but duolinguo keeps saying incorrect. What is wrong?
