In Russian, most words consist of two or more syllables. What follows from this? It's no secret that when reading or pronouncing words, difficulties can arise with the placement of stress, since there are no strict and logical rules governing the so-called pulse of the word. Many words are easy to memorize. One of the words in which the stress is incorrectly placed by many (on the first syllable) is the noun "alcohol".
Accent
In a word consisting of more than one syllable, one of them is always pronounced slightly stronger than the others. Such a syllable is called stressed, the rest are unstressed.
Unstressed vowels are pronounced weakly, indistinctly and very quickly, so that one sound can simply be mistaken for another (this phenomenon is called assimilation), but this does not interfere with understanding the meaning of oral statements and in no way distorts them. In a stressed syllable, the vowel sound is pronounced distinctly and clearly, two to three times longer than any other sound in this word.
Sometimes the wrong accent is not onlymakes the sound of the word ugly or unpleasant, but also changes its meaning:
- Castle to Castle: Lock the castle to the castle so that the dragon does not drag the princesses away.
- Atlas - atlas: Mom went shopping, bought herself an atlas for an evening dress, and my sister and I got atlases for a geography lesson.
- FLOUR - FLOUR: Real flour to grind grain into flour with your hands.
- Organ - organ: Your hearing needs to work perfectly to be accepted into an organ school.
- Ransom - Ransom: Before you go to the pawnshop to redeem gold, you need to redeem the child and put him in a warm bed.
- Bran - bran: Eat only he althy bran, if you want cakes or buns with sweets - better bran both your hands.
Alcohol: Proper Emphasis
How to pronounce this word correctly? Many people put the stress in the word "alcohol" incorrectly - on the first syllable. It turns out - "Alcohol".
The stress in this noun is placed only on the last syllable. It must be remembered like two and two makes four.
Declination
This noun is a common noun, inanimate, masculine. It belongs to the second declension. When changing this noun in cases and numbers, you should also pay special attention to placing the stress in the right place.
Also, remember that "alcohol" is a real noun, it only has a singular grammatical form.
| Nominative | Alcohol is harmful not only for children and pregnant women, but for all mankind. |
| Genitive | Fortunately, there was not a drop of me in our house. |
| Dative | Ibrahim Sultanovich devotedthe best years of his long, sad life full of sad events. |
| Accusative | The student pronounced the word "alcohol" correctly, the accent was correct. |
| Creative | Eat can be poisonous. |
| Prepositional | contains alcohol. |
Correctly placed (in particular, in the word "alcohol") stress is like an even beating of a he althy heart: if the words are pronounced correctly, you notice only the meaning of the spoken lexemes and the phrases and sentences composed of them. Incorrect stress, on the contrary, catches our ears like a splinter.
