{"id":9767,"date":"2017-02-14T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2017-02-14T02:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T02:59:22","slug":"how-do-i-make-an-abstract-noun-in-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/how-do-i-make-an-abstract-noun-in-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Make An Abstract Noun in Russian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learners of Russian soon notice that it uses different forms for different parts of speech. Very rarely can the same sequence of sounds or letters be both a noun and an adjective.\u00a0There are many, many ways of creating nouns of different categories from other parts of speech, such as verbs, adjectives, or other nouns. In this post, we will concentrate on five common suffixes that turn\u00a0an adjective (or sometimes another noun) into an abstract noun.<\/p>\n

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-\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c<\/h1>\n

This is the “default” suffix that takes an adjective (sans ending) and converts it into an abstract noun. It could perhaps be compared to the English suffix –ness\u00a0<\/em>in that it is used for neologisms or ad hoc word-building, e.g. \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c (“Russian-ness”). The resulting nouns are feminine.<\/p>\n