SECTION m 



REFERENCE 



This section represents an attempt to reduce a body of grammatical lore to lists 

 of easily identifiable grammatical facts. It is basically a "finder" section, to which the 

 student may turn for rapid identification of Russian forms. 



Only a small number of the forms contained in the following lists are actually 

 "irregular" in the traditional sense; most of the forms are regular and thus predictable, 

 but only within the framework of limited patterns. For example, a masculine form of 

 the past tense would normaliy(i.e. in the majority of instances) be a form like MHTaJi 

 "he read/was reading" , though a form such as Mor "he was able", is explainable. Ex- 

 planations and their retention by the student are, however, possible only when the learning 

 process is spread over a period of time much longer than that available to the average 

 scientist. It is thus much more reasonable to expect the scientist -student to know that 

 m/[Ta.Ji is the masc. form, past tense, of wrarb but to allow him to treat Mor as a 

 vocabulary item, identified and explained on an alphabetized list. 



This reference section contains the following compilations: 



I Noun Forms 



II Comparative Adverbs 



III Determining Infinitives from Present Tense Forms 



a) Present tense forms in -e- 



b) Present tense forms in -h- 



IV Identifying Past Tense Forms and Determining Infinitives 



V Identifying Past Active Participles and Past Gerunds; Determining Infinitives 



VI Identifying Past Passive Participles and Determining Infinitives 



VII Index of Signals 



- Noun Endings 



- Adjective Endings 



- Noun and Adjective Endings 

 -Verb Endings 



- Endings of Participles and Gerunds 



VIII Standard Abbreviations in Russian 



Noun Forms 



The following list identifies particular noun for ms(e . g . h jep .G -pi . of hr£o) 

 and also indicates stem variations between singular and plural(e.g. N-sg. rocnojiMH : 

 N-pl. rocnojia or between the N-sg. and all other case forms(e.g. N-sg. jio6: G-sg. jiga ) 

 Alphabetic order will be followed, with this exception: the N-sg. form with its English 

 meaning will come first in a series of case-related forms. 



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