Appendix talk:Russian stress patterns - nouns

4, 5
4 (d) and 5 (e) appear to be identical. Is one of them mismarked? —Stephen 22:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Now fixed. --Vahagn Petrosyan 22:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Zaliznyak
Is there an explanation somewhere for Zaliznyak’s grammatical codes? For instance, for огонь Zaliznyak says 3 м 2*в. I understand the meaning of м and в, but what do '3', '2', and '*' mean? I can’t find an explanation. —Stephen 11:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You can find the preface to Zaliznyak's dictionary at under the header Грамматические сведения, where it's all explained. To summarize, he defines 8 declension types for all Russian nouns, , depending on the ending of something called графическая основа (usually derived by removing last vowel, if present):
 * 1. ending in an ordinary consonant: завод, час, зуб, похвал(а), карт(а), коров(а), болот(о)
 * 2. ending in ь, я, е: голубь, конь, неделя, стезя, горе, поле
 * 3. ending in a velar (г, к, х): мальчик, носорог, собак(а), книг(а), благ(о)
 * 4. ending in a sibilant (ж, ч, ш, щ): нож, туч(а), жилищ(е)
 * 5. ending in ц: конец, улиц(а), солнц(е)
 * 6. ending in й or vowel: соловей, стату(я), здани(е)
 * 7. ending in и: кали(й), лини(я).
 * 8. путь (the only word of this type)
 * The "2" in 3 м 2*в for огонь points to 2nd declension, * means огонь is reduced to огн- in declension, 3 means that the third letter is stressed in the basic form (ie : the form you find in the dictionary; without declensions, endings and so on). Anyway, this is not relevant for our declension patterns, as for picking the right one it's necessary to know animateness/inanimateness + ending (and not Zaliznyak's number) + stress pattern number (this is where his dictionary comes in handy). Example: is for inanimate nouns ending in a sibilant belonging to 5th stress pattern (овощ),  is for animate nouns ending in a velar+ а belonging to 1st stress pattern (девочка). All of this, of course, I am going to explain somewhere, as soon as I finish making all templates.
 * As for my organization of templates under 1-7 ("T" is being emptied out) declension types in Category:Russian noun inflection-table templates, it has no practical purpose, just one method of organization.--Vahagn Petrosyan 07:42, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

b' & f"
In what sense are люб́овь and гр́удь stressed on the ending? There are no endings here, just pure stems. 195.187.108.4 13:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * The term endings refers to the suffixed endings added in most of the declined forms. In most cases in these two words, the ending attracts the stress.
 * любо́вь, любв и́, любв и́ , любо́вь, любо́вью, любв и́.
 * гру́дь, груд и́, груд и́ , гру́дь, гру́дью, груд и́ . —Stephen (Talk) 05:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Accusitive Plural
Hi, the accusative plural appears to be missing.
 * That is because the accusative plural is always the same as the nominative plural in inanimate nouns, and the genitive plural in animate nouns. Benwing2 (talk) 02:05, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Alternative Table Layout

 * Thank you, I've adopted a variant of this. Benwing2 (talk) 02:05, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Neuter Nouns: Stress Pattern B Exceptions
Is the list of exceptions meant to be comprehensive or just a sample? Should, for example, товарищество be included here? 193.56.252.180 09:34, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * is a straightforward most common pattern-a noun, not an exception. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:58, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * To answer your question, I expanded it to be as comprehensive a possible without rare words rarely encountered (i.e. to be quite complete, but also be helpful to the non-native speakers, such as myself). In hindsight, perhaps too bold of a task for a Wiktionary appendix, but hopefully it's helpful to someone. --1998alexkane (talk) 13:34, 15 February 2023 (UTC)