THE FORMATION OF NOUNS IN THE GENITIVE CASE IN THE ASPECT OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2017-10-62-69
Choosing the right ending of the case system of nouns is one of the main problems that are encountered by foreigners learning Russian. Probably the genitive case causes the greatest difficulties due to the fact that it can have many meanings and endings and contains a large number of special cases and exceptions. The authors have examined the existing guides and manuals for Russian-speaking natives and foreigners addressed to those who study Russian as a foreign language, and point out the best way to describe all the features of this case. The authors focus on how the genitive case system for nouns is presented, both substantively and graphically. Considerable discrepancies in the principles underlying the delivery and selection of linguistic materials are observed. The authors concluded that the genitive system wasn’t exhaustively treated, not all types of inflection and not all exceptions are described. Moreover, the authors have made three tables organizing the endings of the genitive case of nouns based on the literature review. The authors present a table in which the genitive endings of nouns are shown systematically. All the endings of the nouns are shown in the tables representing the genitive case of singular and plural cases, as well as examples of every case and the phonetic laws of changes in words and special cases of forms’ formation, which have not had drawn attention to before.
Keywords: Russian as a foreign language, genitive case, singular and plural forms, endings, inflections, tables, mobile vowels
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Issue: 10, 2017
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: METHODICAL SUPPORT OF PHILOLOGICAL EDUCATION
Pages: 62 — 69
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