{"id":1671,"date":"2010-12-15T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:16:56","slug":"declension-of-russian-last-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/declension-of-russian-last-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Declension of Russian Last Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whoever said <strong>\u00ab\u0420<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u043a&#8211;\u0432\u0435\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u0438\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [the Russian language is great and mighty] wasn&#8217;t kidding. Nothing illustrates this more than <strong>\u0441\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0444\u0430\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043b\u0438\u0439<\/strong> [declension of last names]. There are complicated rules and just when you think you&#8217;ve got it, you find out there are a couple of exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Russian last names typically end in <strong>\u00ab\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [ov] (or <strong>\u00ab\u0435\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [ev] if the stem is soft) or <strong>\u00ab\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [in]. We will examine declensions of the last name <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Bulgakov], the name of my favorite Russian writer, and <strong>\u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [Bunin], the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the name <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> declines if it refers to a man. (Yes, it is different if we&#8217;re talking about a female <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, a <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Nominative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nAccusative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nGenitive: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nDative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0443\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nPrepositional: <strong>\u00ab\u043e \u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0435\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nInstrumental: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notice how in the instrumental case, the name declines like an adjective, not a noun. Before moving on to women&#8217;s names, <strong>\u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> would decline just like <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>: using the order of cases above, the declension is as follow. <strong>\u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u00bb, \u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0430\u00bb, \u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0430\u00bb, \u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0443\u00bb, \u00ab\u043e \u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0435\u00bb, \u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Female names are when it gets complicated. If we are talking about a woman with the last name of <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/strong>, the declension is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Nominative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nAccusative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0443\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nGenitive: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nDative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nPrepositional: <strong>\u00ab\u043e \u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nInstrumental: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notice how this is different than the declension for men&#8217;s names. A woman&#8217;s last name declines like a noun <em>only<\/em> in the accusative case&#8211;otherwise, it&#8217;s like an adjective.<\/p>\n<p>For the plural declension, if you are talking about two (or more) people with the last name in question, the rules are slightly different. To use <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> again:<\/p>\n<p>Nominative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nAccusative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0445\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nGenitive: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044b\u0445\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nDative: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nPrepositional: <strong>\u00ab\u043e \u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0445\u00bb<\/strong><br \/>\nInstrumental: <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u043c\u0438\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In every case except the nominative, the name declines like an <em>adjective<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Adjectival names (like those ending in <strong>\u00ab\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [ski <em>or<\/em> sky], such as <strong>\u00ab\u0414\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [Dostoevsky]) are easy: they decline just like adjectives for men, women, and plural.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the exceptions to these rules. Last names ending in a vowel do not decline, even if they are of Slavic origin. Therefore, <strong>\u00ab\u0422\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0448<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u043a\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [Tymoshenko] , <strong>\u00ab<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u042e<\/span>\u0449\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [Yushchenko], and <strong>\u00ab\u0428\u0435\u0432\u0447<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u043a\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [Shevchenko] will not decline. This the kind of exception to a rule that we like, right?<\/p>\n<p>There is one more exception that needs to be addressed: names ending in a consonant other than <strong>\u00ab\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, <strong>\u00ab\u0435\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, or <strong>\u00ab\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong>. One such example of a name is <strong>\u00ab\u042f\u043d\u0443\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u0438\u0447\u00bb<\/strong> [Yanukovych], like <strong>\u00ab\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0442 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043d\u044b\u00bb<\/strong> [the president of Ukraine]. When talking about him, his name would decline according the rules for <strong>\u00ab\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, <strong>\u00ab\u0435\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, or <strong>\u00ab\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> names. But when talking about a woman with that last name, such as <strong>\u00ab\u0436\u0435\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span> \u042f\u043d\u0443\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u0438\u0447\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [Yanukovych&#8217;s wife], the name would not decline.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry if this post was a tad boring. Grammar isn&#8217;t the most fun thing to talk about sometimes, but it is important to learn it. For my next post, I&#8217;m thinking of writing about the city of <strong>\u00ab\u041b\u044c\u0432\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Lvov] (I haven&#8217;t been, but a commenter expressed an interest in learning about it) or the history of <strong>\u00ab\u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435\u0432\u00bb<\/strong>, the city I last wrote about.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"225\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/12\/yulia-tymoshenko.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Whoever said \u00ab\u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a&#8211;\u0432\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0433\u0443\u0447\u0438\u0439\u00bb [the Russian language is great and mighty] wasn&#8217;t kidding. Nothing illustrates this more than \u0441\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0444\u0430\u043c\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0439 [declension of last names]. There are complicated rules and just when you think you&#8217;ve got it, you find out there are a couple of exceptions. 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