If you’re a native speaker of a language like English (where grammatical genders are virtually nonexistent), then you know how much of a pain it can be to study Russian, which has three noun genders. Thankfully, it’s not as complicated as it sounds.<\/p>\n
Let’s go over the three Russian noun genders and how to distinguish between them, which words change according to the gender of the noun, how Russian genders work in practice and the few gender exceptions Russian does have.<\/p>\n
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There are three noun genders in Russian: masculine, feminine and neuter. Generally, masculine nouns end in consonants (\u0431<\/strong>, \u0432<\/strong>, \u0433<\/strong>, \u0434<\/strong>, \u0436<\/strong>, \u0437<\/strong>, \u0439<\/strong>, \u043a<\/strong>, \u043b<\/strong>, \u043c<\/strong>, \u043d<\/strong>, \u043f<\/strong>, \u0440<\/strong>, \u0441<\/strong>, \u0442<\/strong>, \u0444<\/strong>, \u0445<\/strong>, \u0446<\/strong>, \u0447<\/strong>, \u0448<\/strong> or \u0449<\/strong>), feminine nouns end in \u0430<\/strong> or \u044f<\/strong> and neuter nouns end in o<\/strong> or e<\/strong>.<\/p>\n (By the way, if you need a refresher on the Russian alphabet, here’s a guide to the Cyrillic letters<\/a>.)<\/p>\n There are exceptions to the general rules above, of course, but we’ll get into those later. For now, take a look at these examples illustrating what Russian gender looks like in action.<\/p>\n\n
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