What is a noun? If such a question was asked at a Russian language lesson, and the student does not know the answer, then it's time to sit down for morphology. Morphology is that part of the science of language that studies parts of speech and knows what a noun is. Or rather, she knows everything about him.
Morphology answers this question as follows: "A noun is all the names of objects!". Objects in grammar are usually called things and people, natural phenomena, plants and animals, in general, everything that answers the question “who” or “what”. Inanimate objects answer the question “what”, in grammar they are called inanimate nouns. The question "who" is asked about living beings: people, animals, insects. They are animate nouns.
Nouns can be proper and common nouns. People, animals and birds have their own names, however, it is more correct to call them nicknames. Planets, villages, cities and countries, rivers, seas and oceans also have proper names. Kindergartens, camps, books, magazines, films and performances also have them. All of them are written with a large, capitalletters, and the names of magazines, books, movies are also taken in quotation marks, apparently for importance.
For example:
The name Lida really suits her.
The whole family once again watched the movie "Love and Doves".
Actor Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin starred in a film about a heroic dog named Mukhtar.
Children are always delighted to watch the lunar eclipse.
We traveled along the Volga on a large motor ship Zarya.
All other nouns are called common nouns and are written with a small, lowercase letter.
About some of them we say: "he". Or we can substitute the word "mine". These nouns are masculine. About others, we say: “she”, “mine”. They belong to the feminine gender. What is a neuter noun? There are some names of objects that are neither feminine nor masculine. We will say about them: “it” or “mine”. They belong to the middle gender.
For example, the nouns "uncle" and "man", "child" and "boy", "horse" and "bear", "table" and "bowler" are masculine. The nouns “mother” and “grandmother”, “girl” and “neighbor”, “pan” and “lamp”, “dog” and “bear” are feminine. “Tree” and “wheel”, “sun” and “seaside”, “miracle” and “child”, “taxi” and “domino” are neuter.
But among them there are those whose gender depends on the gender of the person they call at the moment.
For example: Our Julia is a big ignoramus! (female). The teacher said that Dima is an ignoramus (m.r.). "Ignorant" -a generic noun, such nouns end in "a" or "ya".
For example: Yasha, sleepyhead, you overslept again! (m.r.). Marina is so sleepy, she is often late for the first lesson! (female).
Sometimes it is not easy to determine the gender, especially if the word is of foreign origin. For example, “jelly”, “relay”, “coat” are neuter, and “coffee” and “pen alty” are masculine. But "kohlrabi" and "avenue" are feminine. If you have difficulty in determining the gender, it is better to refer to the dictionary.
In the scope of one article, one can only partially answer the question “what is a noun.”
This topic is for several articles, especially if you remember that they change by gender, number and case, are divided into declensions and are written according to the rules.
