Instruction
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Most inanimate indeclinable nouns belong to the middle family, regardless of the value and end in a vowel. The word "depot", "highway", "jury", "interview", "coat", "movie", "alibi", "cocoa", "puree" is neuter. For example, locomotive depot, an interesting interview alibi.
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Among these nouns there are several words that have kind of motivated by the value of the generic concept or the old forms. Avenue - street, female; kohlrabi - cabbage, feminine; coffee - drink, then men's; salami - sausage, female; penalty, free kick, male; Sirocco - wind, men's. For example, fresh kohlrabi, hot coffee, delicious salami.
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The gender of a noun, calling persons depends on real sex. If the word calls men, these masculine nouns and pronouns (dandy). If female, then feminine nouns (Frau, lady).
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Nouns naming persons in the profession are masculine, although you can call and females: attache, entertainer, Maestro. For example, the military attache Petrov and Sidorov special attaché, an experienced entertainer Izmailov and well-known entertainer Orlov.
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The names of animals and birds usually refers to the masculine: zebu, a Hummingbird, a chimpanzee. But if in the context of the noun indicates a female, the word refers to the feminine: a chimpanzee feeding a baby. And only in a few words the genus is a generic concept: iwashi - herring, feminine; tsetse - fly, is feminine. For example, delicious iwashi, threat tsetse.
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Gender of undeclined nouns is determined by the nature of a common noun, a nounacting as a generic term. For example, Sunny Sochi - the city, the masculine; deep, on the lake, average; hot Gobi desert, female.
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Indeclinable nouns are among slozhnosochinennyh words. The genus of such abbreviations is determined by the main word in the complete name. For example: UN (the United Nations, the feminine gender) adopted a resolution RIA (Russian information Agency, the average) reported. But to this rule there are exceptions: TASS is authorized to declare. Although the key word here is Agency.