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LECTURE 4

Supplementary material

1. Additional vocabulary

2. Gender exceptions

Section 1

ADDITIONAL VOCABULARY

Профе ́ ссия  professionРабо ́ та  job/work

Common professions that only have Masculine forms

(refer to both men and women) 

Компози ́тор composer

Исто ́ рик historianПсихо ́ лог psychologistСекрета ́ рь secretaryФи ́зик physicistФило ́ соф philosopherХи ́ мик chemistДире ́ ктор director

Поли ́тик politicianПрезиде ́ нт president

Экономи ́ст economistЮри ́ст lawyerВрач(synonym of до ́ ктор) doctorИнжене ́ р engineerЭкскурсово ́ д guide

Диза ́ йнер designer

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Диплома ́ т diplomatПрограмми ́ ст programmerМе ́ неджер manager

Матема ́ тик mathematicianCommon professions that have both masculine andfeminine forms:

Masculine Feminine

Официа ́ нт официа ́ нтка waiter

 Арти ́ст арти ́стка  artist

Писа ́ тель писа ́ тельница  writerСпортсме ́ н спортсме ́ нка  sportsman

Студе ́ нт студе ́ нтка  student

Перево ́ дчик перево ́ дчица  translator

Преподава ́ тель преподава ́ тельница  university teacher

Учи ́тель учи ́тельница  school teacher

Журнали ́ст урнали

 ́стка  ournalist

* As you can see, we turn masculine professions into feminine by using

certain suffixes such as к , иц, ниц and the ending а to indicate thefeminine gender.

** “suffix” is a syllable that is added to the main part of a word called the“root”.

***Please note that some professions do have conversational feminineforms (i.e. “до ́ кторша”, but they do not tend to be used in formal contextand could be considered impolite)

Specific terminology:

Же ́ нский feminineМужско ́ й masculineСре ́ дний neuter

Род gender

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Мно ́ жественное число ́   pluralЕди ́нственное число ́   singularМестоиме ́ ние pronoun

Существи ́тельное noun

Section 2

GENDER EXCEPTIONS

Some words that describe a masculine concept have feminineendings and some words with feminine endings are treated asneuter words. There are not too many of these and we willthink of them in terms of the appropriate concept, butgrammatically we will treat them depending on their ending.

Here are the most common ones:

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И́мя first name NeuterВре ́ мя time Neuter

Па ́ па dad Feminine

Дя ́дя uncle Feminine

Де ́ душкаgranddad Feminine

Мужчи ́на man Feminine