Colloquial Russian

72 Unit 5: Семья�

Neuter nouns in -мя

There are ten nouns in Russian with the nominative ending -мя. These

nouns are all neuter. The endings of these nouns in the cases covered

so far are as follows:

Nominative и�мя ‘name’ вре�мя ‘time’

Accusative и�мя вре�мя

Genitive и�мени вре�мени

Prepositional и�мени вре�мени

Весь

Весь ‘all, the whole’ has different forms for masculine, feminine, neuter

and plural:

Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural

весь вся всё все

весь день ‘all day, the whole day’; вся семья� ‘the whole family’; всё

вре�мя ‘all the time’; все де�ти ‘all children’.

The neuter form всё is also used to mean ‘everything’, and the plural

form все is used for ‘all, everyone’:

Всё о�чень интере�сно

‘Everything is very interesting’.

Все говоря�т

‘Everyone says’.

Упражне�ние 6

Choose the correst form of весь, вся, всё or все to agree with the

following nouns.

1 университе�т.

2 кварти�ра.

3 метро�.

4 ко�мнаты.

5 неде�ля.

6 день.

7 у�тро.

8 пробле�мы.

9 вре�мя.

10 семья�.

11 де�ти.

12 о�фис.