Let us recall the lessons of the Russian language: the ending of nouns

All in school years passed on the Russian language topic "Noun" and knew about the ending of nouns, if not all, then almost everything. Someone well remembers the lessons, someone is not very, but almost any of us does not have the information to the full. Did you know that the school and university morphology program is significantly different? It would seem, what kind of difference can there be? But, nevertheless, it is so. We will not delve into the academic program, just remember what a noun is, and what role the endings of nouns play.

What is a noun?

The noun is part of a speech denoting an object (substance) and expressing its meaning through the inflectional categories of case and number, as well as the non-exorbitant category of the genus.

For a noun it is peculiar to call objects in the broad sense of the word:

• Things ( window, wall, trousers );
• Person ( man, man, woman );
• Substances ( sugar, flour, milk );
• Living creatures and organisms ( dog, pike, virus, bacterium );
• Facts, events, phenomena ( conversation, play, fear, sadness ).

In addition, it can give names to independent substances with procedural and non-procedural characteristics. These include qualities, properties or actions, as well as the conditionally presented states: stupidity, kindness, decision, running, and blue.

End of nouns

As already mentioned, the noun has a inflectional category of case. The case is a category of the word, directly related to declension. Declination is a change in numbers and persons. Gramatically this change is manifested in such a part of the word as the ending of nouns. But not all of them tend to the same way: different nouns in the form of the same case can have different endings. What does the ending of nouns tell us? About their belonging to this or that type of declension. The type of declination combines nouns as a single rule for inflection. There are three types of declination.

The first decline

For the first declination, endings such as -a, -y are characteristic, when the noun is in the nominative case in the singular: earth , wave . Basically they are all feminine, except for some words (for example, uncle or boy ).

The second declination

The ending of the nouns of the second declension is -o, -e, -e for the middle genus: the sea, the window, the rags . Also here are nouns without case endings of masculine gender: horse, table, edge .

The third decline

This declension includes nouns without case endings of the feminine gender: mouse, rye . Naturally, in the form of the singular nominative case.

Own and common nouns. Category Animations

Nouns are traditionally divided into their own and common nouns. Own - these are used to name individual objects that are not part of a particular class. Nominal is called an object that is the bearer of a set of attributes characteristic of a particular class. Animate nouns are those that are called living beings, and inanimate, respectively, all other things and phenomena. So, we repeated the basic rules concerning nouns, a little refreshed their knowledge. And now you can say with certainty that remember the school program of the Russian language.