Gender of Nouns Ending in -ั
Mini Project Dated: 6/18/2024
In June of the year of our lord 2024… #
I was learning Russian nouns and training myself to recognize the difference between masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. An oversimplified pattern emerged (yes I know there are exceptions):
masculine nouns in infinitive form end in a consonant, feminine in -a, and neuter in -o.
However, there are some nouns that end in ั which may be either masculine or feminine. So my question - out of the first 10,000 most commonly used Russian nouns ending in ั what’s the proportion of feminine to masculine words?
If I took a guess while looking at some unfamiliar noun (inf.) ending in ั maybe I could guess with a bias favoring either masculine or feminine based on which showed up more.
Using a little bit of statistics, I was able to find a significant association between the relative frequency (ipm) score of nouns on this 10,000 word list, and the gender of these words. As for my sources - I was able to get the first 10,000 most commonly used words (a list which might change from resource to resource) from this resource : https://ruscorpora.ru/en/
More On “The Statistics” #
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