-ище

Etymology
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Usage notes

 * Comes in both stressed and unstressed variants. The above declension tables show the unstressed variants; the stressed variants are identical except for the stress on -и́ще.
 * When added to reducible nouns, it is added onto the reduced stem of the noun (for masculine reducible nouns, found everywhere but in the nominative singular).
 * Triggers the when added to nouns and verbs whose stem ends in a velar (к г х) or in ц.
 * Augmentatives of inanimate masculine nouns can be either neuter or masculine. Most such masculine augmentatives have an optional plural in -и; some have a required plural in -и.
 * Augmentatives or animate masculine nouns are generally masculine animate. Such nouns have a required plural in -и and have alternative colloquial forms in the singular with feminine endings.

Declension

 * neuter


 * masculine


 * masculine animate