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[haxyr3]

10 Masculine Nouns that Take -У in Prepositional

The prepositional case in Russian is one of the easiest: most nouns simply take -E ending, and you don't have to think about their gender or whether their stems are hard or soft (sometimes linguistic speak sounds cheesy, I know).

However, there is a small group of masculine nouns that take -У in the prepositional case. It happened because a few centuries ago, there was a special case for location - the Locative case, and the ending -У is what's left of it. Later, the locative case merged with the prepositional, and now we have this mess of endings.

Here are 10 most frequent nouns that take -У in the prepositional case:

Год (year) - в году 

Глаз (eye) - в глазу

Лес (forest) - в лесу

Ряд (row) - в ряду

Угол (corner) - на / в углу 

Пол (floor) - на полу

Край (edge) - на краю (also possible на крае)

Сад (garden) - в саду

Снег (snow) - на / в снегу 

Нос (nose)-  на / в носу 

Note: The ending -У only goes when you speak about locations; if this is prepositional of the subject of speech, then it is just the regular -Е ending: Я часто думаю о своём левом глазе.

[haxyr3]

Больной vs Болезненный

Боль in Russian means "pain".

There are two different adjectives that are related to боль - one is for somebody or something that is experiencing pain, and the other is for something that causes pain.

Больной (adjective) - 1) sick, ill; 2) aching, bad (about a tooth, for example) 3) weak 4) sensitive == someone or something that is in pain

Болезненный - painful, traumatic, painstaking == something that causes pain

Examples:

Больной ребёнок не должен ходить в школу. A sick child should not go to school.

2. Моя больная нога не дала мне уснуть. My bad leg didn't let me sleep.

3. У тебя больной вид - иди домой! You look sick, go home!

4. Это больной вопрос для нас, не будем говорить об этом. It is a sensitive topic for us, let's not talk about it.

5. Школа - это болезненный опыт для многих подростков. High school is a painful experience for many teens.

6. Это болезненная процедура, нужна анастезия. It's a painful procedure, you need anaesthesia.

It was your random Russian word formation/ vocabulary lesson.

[notsuchagoodnoodle]

Random lesson learned #1

Trying to smoke with a tiny lighter while your partner is all over you, high as a kite, is more difficult than it seems. They're such a dork lol

[kristsune]

Hello my followers! Just wanted to share a quick lesson in snakes just because. This is my snake Baby. Now you may be thinking "why is her eye blue? Do snakes ever have blue eyes?" Welp, Baby is going through a blue phase. Which means that her body is preparing to shed. What has happened is her new set of scales have formed and her old set needs to separate from it to be shed off. So, this is the result of that separation. If you ever run into a snake in the wild you always want to be careful, but if you ever see a snake with eyes like this, please take extra precautions especially if it's a venomous snake. They tend to be much more defensive & will attack much quicker. They cannot see well & will scare easily. This has been your random snake lesson for the day.

[anenigmaticmosaic]

Lesson of the night:

Less overthinking, more doing.