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6grammatical cases
Shin and colleagues write that Russian nouns can be declined in six cases, with singular and plural numbers and three grammatical genders.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Russian nouns can be declined according to six cases, two numbers (singular and plural) and three grammatical genders (male, female and neutral).”
Maximum Entropy Language Modeling for Russian ASR, Evgeniy Shin et al., Proceedings of IWSLT 2013, 2013, Section 1, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- A recognizer must pick the right ending for the case, which the speaker's sound often does not mark clearly.
- What it does not show
- Describes the grammar of Russian nouns. Adjectives and verbs add more endings.