"два окна"

Translation: two windows

[PalaeoJoe]

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?

[Dannis.K]

It's on А (однО окнО = 1 window, двА окнА = 2 windows).

[StavatS]

The plural form has the stress on the first syllable, so не окнА, а Окна

[diogogomez]

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

[Dotters]

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 :-)

[JewishPolyglot]

So is it два for средний, is it dual number, or is it both?

[Norrius]

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, ...

[mizinamo]

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?)

[Norrius]

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).

[JewishPolyglot]

Спасибо!

[yyyxxx]

It is not very clear the explanation given in Tips and notes about how to fit the numbers with the nouns!

[agriffin95]

So one window is окно but two windows is окна for some reason. Don't know what gender this word is but okay.....

[Dotters]

It's neuter, and окна is the genitive singular form. Neuter nouns in -о always end in -а in the genitive singular.

[Ehsan_Mehmed]

So all nouns after numbers become genitive?

[yasmine_y]

If I understood correctly, only after 2, 3 and 4 (and numbers that end in 2, 3 and 4).

[Ilana_Shapiro]

And with numbers 5, 6, 7, and so on we use genitive plural - 5 окон, 10 окон, 100окон

[franklinfranks]

0 is also gen plural - ноль окон

[BrianFarre19]

Is the speaker merging these two words it sounds like davarkna until you slow it down.