let's begin so what is a noun and noun names a person and animal thing

phenomenon may be substance all of those are nouns and Russian nouns

have several features that I want you to know about and one of them is gender

gender is our today's topic and in Russian it's wrote wrote remember our

pronunciation lesson for the last week we don't say role do we say what roots

okay so genders in Russian we have three genders guess what masculine of course

feminine and loiter loiter feminine masculine let's talk a little bit about

masculine and feminine first because they are super easy

uh first way to understand which nouns goes to which gender is to look if it's

a person if it's a man obviously it's he masculine if it's a

woman obviously well sometimes especially today it's not

that obvious anymore but still if it's a woman it's she so let's write down our

personal pronouns one stands for he masculine o stands for she feminine and

Allah Allah means it loiter loiter or pewter Idol even confusing with German

know-it-all so one Anna know if it's a person it's a

human being and you can see that it's a man it goes too masculine it's heat for

example the word man write it down please and repeat after me

no Sheena because it's a very interest in the word it's pretty difficult to

pronounce it as Morici 'no because those two it's difficult to put them together

mussina mussina when you try fast it's becoming kind of too much effort

so you pronounce it as mussina mussina mussina mussina and of course it's a man

doing it right translation for you mashina man same with the words like mmm

what else papa why not papa

obviously Papa cannot be a woman Papa because mama is a woman bah bah of

course he is masculine one papa same with the word uncle Dada

repeat after me yeah uh let's see yeah yeah yeah oh it's so difficult to write

like that Dada means uncle uncle drj Papa machinae

what else my chick a boy in general my cheek my cheek a boy my cheek write them

down and don't forget about the stress Marchak giardia papa machinist Oh

everyone who is a man masculine own so same here when it's about a woman let's

get rid of this for some time we don't need it now

if it's something connected with a woman in China

Mussina trinchina a woman real she Rena Rena about pronunciation remember that

hard consonants followed by soft consonants become soft themselves ring

Sheena if you forgot about it watch the previous lesson Rena Rena

it's a woman of course in China is feminine Anna in China

mama of course is feminine as well mama mama

feminine giardia same with kya and two cha-cha-cha

Georgie remember that your is always stressed Georgia this and okay and Gia

Huachuca dear watch kaam kar diya vodka it's not

like some German language where D America is newer does Nathan for

Russians it's like big surprised just mention in Russian it's

feminine Allah dia vodka but it's obvious with these words but also when

it comes to words like professor student or I don't know doctor when you see the

person you understand usually in most cases if it's a man or if it's a woman

so you can understand which pronoun to choose which word to choose so this is

the first way to understand if it's masculine or it's a if it's feminine

depending on which person it denotes write it down so that was pretty easy

right man a woman feminine masculine it's obvious now I have a bad piece of

news for you all the objects around us whiteboard

I don't know haired or table everything has gender French people German people

they know this stuff but for English speakers might be a little bit tricky

but the good news is that's a plus the good news is that Russian genders are

super easy to remember it's a piece of cake all you need to do is to look at

the ending of the word so let's get two examples masculine call consonants or

you if a word you see some word if it ends on the consonants or you short e

actually you is consonant too but for some reason usually they show it like

that so consonant in the ending or you it's

masculine let's practice for example stole a table stool uh-huh stole

table table still okay geez what's going on here

okay table never mind never mind let's pretend it never happened

so just write down the word table stole look at the ending here we have a

consonant loop means that it's masculine spool 1-1 in English table is it it

right in Russian it's he one stool get used to it from the very first lesson

because it's a huge problem for English speakers they have huge troubles naming

the objects addressing the objects inanimate objects with all Anna it's

difficult for them so stole one and actually have a batterer word for

example and in with all jail if one of course telephone telephone telephone you

see one till the phone on telephone telephone on super easy again consonant

OOP in the ending so telephone same with the word microphone let's write it down

- why not me crow remember the pronunciation and don't ask me why I'm

pronounced added as a microphone because we already know when stress and goes

here this one turns to a microphone again

look at the ending here is a consonant oh so how about

some other word museum mu z yi you see what's in the ending in the end we have

you means it's masculine one movie yeah why not

Oh what else what else maybe mm-hmm Factory I don't know why I'm bringing it

just four examples of what Factory the what

remember about reduction the wood uh yeah factory it's a man in Russian won

the war as a wood so oh now I want you just to understand

that concept in the ending were you in the end and all right so here is

masculine ah now feminine nah you already know this

one uh nah it even sounds more feminine nah like I know

same here if it's ah in the ending or yeah oh yeah so feminine right we don't

even need to learn it so ah yeah in the end in the ending for example why the

word snake is the first association I have with feminine I'm having some

problems for sure but the snake is Miya Miya Miya is look like worm

sneeze yeah yeah in the end we have young means new yaw

is feminine Allah meeya for example you have some colleague woman that you hate

and you say oh she's such a snake allah is Miya Miya

ana well maybe winter winter e ma in russian winter is z ma z ma repeat after

me please always repeat everything I'm saying in Russian always repeat after me

okay if you need to pause the video because I want to make every second of

this lesson count I want you to speak constantly even if it's just repeating

some words so Z ma means winter in the end we have ah ah Zima ah ah Zima or

easy word to remember a car in Russian is mushy na na na mush I hope now you

can see the difference between my E and yn mashina mashina marsinah look at the

ending it's not just ah it's na na machine ah super easy to remember right

um na machine ah so mashina is she machine and what else a book nigga nigga

nigga a book

again we see are here so it's feminine Allah Allah Kananga meeow meeow

yo ma ma Sheena Kananga all those words ending with AH and yeah ok but now I

guess you have a question what's with the words that we already know like a

clue Moloch or veal or they are not masculine

they're not feminine of course means that they are do I have to get rid of

this I think yes they are neuter maybe I'll be able to put it here I hope

you wrote it down let me get rid of this ok so the words ending with year and O

are neuter oh yeah will write it down in a second oh so difficult to remove stuff

from here so neuter ah no ah no it year for example has already said we know but

we know guess what it means we know of course it means wine vino vino in the

end we have war so if it's o or yeah in the ending of the word its buter let's

try some more let's take the wonderful word

see Maury I have troubles with mud today more here more it means see that was

supposed to be a wave but okay let's just write it down Moorea so if you look

at the ending we have year here Moria oh no no mori are no real more were the

word window oh oh cool cool again in the ending right

oh no oh no Vinu mori ignore so oh yeah in the

ending means that it's your so this was the general rule about how to divide

nouns in three genders but of course there is more to talk about here this is

a soft sign and here we have a little bit of tricky situations if you see a

soft sign in the end of the word it's a little bit more difficult because it can

be masculine and it can be feminine okay for example the word ding-ding-ding is

masculine but if you see something like this or this or this with soft sign with

soft sign sure all those remember them yeah if you see those in the ending

in most cases it's feminine in most situations it's feminine don't

think about it too much right now I want you to remember just the rule about

consonant and about aya and all year in neuter neuter I'm always

trying to say no to too much German in my life so yeah problems maybe with soft

sign in the ending and also you might be thinking what about all those other

letters like ma e for example yeah hmm maybe you II what to do if you see them

in D and usually these are words that were borrowed from some different

language for example what's going on here for example me noon it's certainly

not a Russian word meaning most of the these words would be mute er most of

them I would say 90% of them would be neuter me knew or what else I don't know

maybe let's write it down going for I'm not sure if you need it but just an

example you see are you we're all so you can meet a word like lady lady

it ends with E liji Leedy but of course you understand that it's a woman lady

it means lady of course lady lady so here you come back to the very first

room so if you can tell who it is it means that you can understand if it's

masculine orphan so most of the words would be neuter

except for the words that you can understand with your eyes or from the

context that it's woman or a man okay now let's practice a little bit and we

will try to grow our vocabulary a little bit and we start with family

members family oops wanted to write in English but then

changed my mind family in Russian is senior senior and

why on earth is it so luckily so write down Samia Samia is family Samia so now

let's go through all the family members Oh

number one okay Papa blah blah and let's try to understand the gender here we

understand that it's a man Papa can't be a feminine so even if it has this ah in

the ending we still understand that it's masculine papa masculine right then who

comes next mama you already know feminine mama

feminine then how about a son swing soon the Sun again we don't even need to look

at the ending because we understand that it's a boy a son son

so it's masculine right how about daughter daughter in Russian a daughter

is Doge Doge and of course it's a girl so oops

so it's feminine right what other words do we have what are their family members

we have sistrum we already had this word sister again it's sister we don't even

need to do anything special sestra is feminine of course braat braat

braat brother brat is masculine and you hear you could notice this tendency that

even if it's obvious that it's a manner if it's a woman the rule with endings

almost always works so we remember that you chew with soft sign feminine Doge

consonant in the ending masculine you see exception is Papa and and Giada the

idea let's write him down yeah idea you already know this word

Giada masculine and future and but I guess you already wrote them down why

would I bother bother to do it again okay the idea to which ah and then we go

to grandparents torture feminine and then we go to bar bushka why am i

holding this bah bushka means grainy or grandmother

bah-bah-bah busca old lady usually it's grainy and barbash car of course it's a

woman it's then we have da-da-da-da-da dooshka do

dooshka d douche car even if we see the are in the ending it still means that

it's a man because it's grandpa grandpa cannot be feminine of course

so babushka diya dooshka then we have grand grandson of the nuke short ver

Schwartz word in Russian of the lick of the look means a grand grandson yeah

look it's a boy means it's masculine of course grand

daughter is Avenue chica let's write it down of vodka vodka and again of course

it's feminine of mooshka upon what else nephew plea mang Nick Nick bleep yep

Yannick plea manic is nephew meaning a boy it's masculine and plea magnet saw a

girl nephew his plea me Aneesa plea no new double and my son plinian itza and

here you can see this rule again Pliny and Nick premium it'sa masculine and

feminine so these are the basic relatives family

by the way I want you to know that cousin in Russian we don't use the word

who's them cousin who's them we say divide Maya sister or the value radish

Brad I don't even know if you need this the world you Brad it's a cousin and

actually in Russian I just always say Brad or sister brother or sister and for

foreigners it's very confusing because I have a brother and I have many cousins

but I call them all brothers so keep that in mind when a Russian person calls

someone brother or sister it might be about their cousins

okay now let's practice with the word ye de food let's write down some food the

food itself in Russian is Yi da food Heda Heda and try to guess what is it

here you look at the ending here da means that it's feminine right

feminine nah yi da so that's the topic now let's go through our food let's

begin with the breakfast egg in Russian is it so yet so yeah this is an egg

you thought yet so how about the gender look at the ending nor yet saw it saw

its neuter right how about we don't say I don't know I know that

english-speaking people don't say porridge anymore

but usually by the word oatmeal we mean kasha

it means porridge it can be a buck with it can be oatmeal's even corn boiled in

this substance so in Russian it's kasha kasha yes the gender now look at the

ending mm-hmm kasha uh nah of course it's feminine kasha now let's

speak about how to know whose salad which may be sandwich so the rich

actually there are many many controversies because some people say