Russian Declension and Conjugation

1. Russian Declension and Conjugation Chapter 5: Pronominal Adjective Declension

2. What is a pronominal adjective? • Well, the easy answer is “anything with this declension”, but can you list them all?

3. What is a pronominal adjective? • Well, the easy answer is “anything with this declension”, but can you list them all? • Relational Adjectives suffixed in -/j, -in, -ov • Possessives : мой, твой, свой, наш, ваш, чей • Demonstratives этот, тот • Determinatives весь, сам • Numerals один, третий

4. All about -/j • Note that • k, g, x, d, t, c mutate before this suffix (волчий) • A fill vowel in the noun stem becomes a full vowel in the adjective • The fill vowel in the suffix is always i because it is always unstressed before j • Watch the spelling of j: Nsg masc –ий, otherwiseCьV

5. More notes about the relational adjectives • Stress is basically where it was in the noun, and it is fixed • Because –in softens preceding C, o > e in roots, as in женин • Exceptions: тётин, тёщин

6. A question about relational adjectives • P. 67 “Such forms…are…giving way to the longer adjectival forms…” What is Levin referring to here? What are the longer forms that they are yielding to?

7. A question about relational adjectives • P. 67 “Such forms…are…giving way to the longer adjectival forms…” What is Levin referring to here? What are the longer forms that they are yielding to? • Forms like отцовский, материнский; note that they are usually replaced by a Genitive form too.

8. Special notes on the unsuffixed types • End stress on all except наш, ваш, этот • Тот, весь have e where we would expect i • Тот, сам, этот, один soften before e, i • Nsg masc ends in t for тот, этот • Один has fill vowel i