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tomatoes - you name it! And so many flowers, and what a wonderful air!
(53) Do you have only one brother?
(54) Yes, I have only one brother. He is not married. He lives
with our father and
mother. But I also have two sisters. And in general, I have a very large extended family:
an aunt and an uncle, nephews
and nieces, cousins and second cousins... However,
I'm sorry, I must go home.
(55) Thank you very much. It was very interesting for me.
(56) In this case, we can continue our conversation tomorrow.
(57) With pleasure.
(58) At the same place and at the same time?
(59) Agreed. Thank you again. All the best!
Comments to the Russian text presented above (Paragraphs 1
– 59)
Paragraphs 3 & 4. As you probably noticed, the suffixes
кa and
ница were used in
these paragraphs to build two nouns denoting female persons (by adding the above
suffixes to the corresponding masculine nouns). These suffixes
are very common
and can be used in many other similar cases (please note that suffixes are always
added to the stem of a word, i.e. to its main part). For example:
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Masculine Gender
Feminine Gender
студент (student)
студентка
немец (German,
as a nationality)
немка
писатель (writer)
писательница
читатель (reader)
читательница
In many cases the same noun is used to define both a male and female person, for
example:
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: