Declension of Russian adjectives ending in -гий, -кий, -хий, -гой, -кой, -хой
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Today we continue learning to decline Russian adjective. Do you remember the spelling rules we learned some time ago? The adjectives we are going to learn today are in the separate group, because we have to follow those spelling rules when decline them.
Here are some examples of these adjectives:
ру́сский – Russian
де́тский – children’s
мужско́й – man’s
сухо́й – dry
Let’s learn the pattern of this type of declension, which is mostly the same as the declension of soft-ending (for -гий, -кий, -хий) and hard-ending (for -гой, -кой, -хой) adjectives except the fact that we have to replace Ы with И after the letters Г, К and Х.
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural |
| Nominative | ру́сский | ру́сская | ру́сское | ру́сские |
| Genitive | ру́сского | ру́сской | ру́сского | ру́сских |
| Dative | ру́сскому | ру́сской | ру́сскому | ру́сским |
| Accusative (inanimate) | ру́сский | ру́сскую | ру́сское | ру́сские |
| Accusative (animate) | ру́сского | ру́сскую | ру́сское | ру́сских |
| Instrumental | ру́сским | ру́сской / ру́сскою | ру́сским | ру́сскими |
| Prepositional | ру́сском | ру́сской | ру́сском | ру́сских |
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural |
| Nominative | мужско́й | мужска́я | мужско́е | мужски́е |
| Genitive | мужско́го | мужско́й | мужско́го | мужски́х |
| Dative | мужско́му | мужско́й | мужско́му | мужски́м |
| Accusative (inanimate) | мужско́й | мужску́ю | мужско́е | мужски́е |
| Accusative (animate) | мужско́го | мужску́ю | мужско́е | мужски́х |
| Instrumental | мужски́м | мужско́й / мужско́ю | мужски́м | мужски́ми |
| Prepositional | мужско́м | мужско́й | мужско́м | мужски́х |
Listen to the audio of today’s lesson and practice all the adjectives with it.
More lessons on the declension of Russian adjectives
- 124: Declension of Russian adjectives: hard-ending adjectives
- 125: Declension of Russian adjectives: soft-ending adjectives
- 126: Declension of Russian adjectives ending in -гий, -кий, -хий, -гой, -кой, -хой
- 127: Declension of Russian adjectives ending in -жий, -ший, -чий, -жой, -шой, -чой
- 130: Practice Russian adjectives in different cases
More lessons on the Russian adjectives
- 060: Introduction to Russian adjectives
- 124: Declension of Russian adjectives: hard-ending adjectives
- 125: Declension of Russian adjectives: soft-ending adjectives
- 126: Declension of Russian adjectives ending in -гий, -кий, -хий, -гой, -кой, -хой
- 127: Declension of Russian adjectives ending in -жий, -ший, -чий, -жой, -шой, -чой
- 129: Use of the long form of Russian adjectives
- 130: Practice Russian adjectives in different cases
- 131: The short form of Russian adjectives
- 132: Formation of the short form of Russian adjectives
- 137: The comparative degree of Russian adjectives: the long form
- 138: The comparative degree of Russian adjectives: the short form
- 139: The superlative degree of Russian adjectives (1st part)
- 140: The superlative degree of Russian adjectives (2d part)
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So a “friend” texted me Хой! I don’t know what that means. Can you help?
Hello Tsov.
“Хой” does not mean anything. If it was “Хай!” that would be just a Russian version of “Hi!”