Numeral

The grammar of the Russian language says that an independent part of speech, which means number, number or order, is called a numerative name. Numerical can have different meanings, structure and grammar. This part of the speech includes all the words that answer the questions "Which?" And "How much?".

If we talk about the morphological features of the numerals, it should be noted that there are permanent and variable signs. Variable include case, gender and number. All numerals tend to cases, some may also tend to numbers and genera.

In the sentence, the numeral name can perform different functions. As a rule, a quantitative numeral makes up one sentence member with a noun. For example: Four people looked out the window . In most cases, quantitative numerals are included in the list of those members of the sentence, which may be nouns. As for ordinal numbers, they can perform the functions of defining or part of a compound nominal predicate. For example: The girl was the seventh.

By value, all names of numerals are divided into quantitative and ordinal. Quantitative means the number (of objects) or number (an abstract concept). Quantitative numerals can be integers (eight, one hundred and ten), fractional (one fifth, two third), collective (both, three). Ordinal numerals deal with the order of the account (second, one hundred and tenth).

By its structure, the numeral is simple and complex. Simple numerals are written in one word (two, eighteen, four hundred, eightieth). Compound, in turn, consist of several words (twenty-two, two hundred two, eighty-eighth). If we draw parallels between meaning and structure, we note that whole quantitative and ordinal numerals can be either compound or simple, while fractional quantitative ones are only composite, and collective quantitative ones are only simple.

Quantitative numerals have a number of features in compatibility with the nouns to which they refer. In the nominative and accusative cases they require after themselves the noun in the genitive case. For example: nine books, eighteen mimosas, thirty people. In this case, such numerals as one and a half, three, two and four require a noun in the singular, the others in the plural. For example: two fingers - five fingers; Three mimosa - twenty mimosas; Four boys - eighty boys. This type of compatibility in the Russian language is called management (that is, the case is governed by a numeral).

In other forms, the type of connection is agreement, when the numeral is consistent with the noun in the case. For example: ten windows, three mimosa (r.p.), ten windows, three mimosas (d.p.), ten windows, three mimosas (etc.), (o) ten windows, three mimosas.

Collective numerals are combined with nouns as whole quantitative numerals. With all collective numbers, the noun is used in the plural. And only "both" require a single number. For example: "seven kids", but "both brothers". Ordinal numerals are consistent with nouns as adjectives. For example: the first night, the ninth week, the tenth day.

The numeral in English can also be ordinal or quantitative, but in English grammar there are no "problems" with declension that take place in the Russian language.