From the first glance at the word "vent" it becomes clear that this is a noun. Moreover, the noun is a common noun (names an object one of many) and inanimate (denotes an inanimate object). Also, it is a neuter noun. But do you know the meaning behind the letters of this word?
The vent is…
To clarify the meaning of the word "vent", we turn to explanatory dictionaries for help.
So, the vent is:
- The hole in the front of the oven. “The stove-maker looked into the mouth of the furnace, but could not figure out why the smoke had stopped going up the chimney.”
- A hole in the muzzle of artillery pieces. “Flashes of fire flew out of the muzzle of the cannon.”
- A hole in the crater. “It’s not worth going up to the mouth of the volcano.”
Changes in cases and numbers
Since the vent is a neuter noun, it is inflected in the second type.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | A vent is a hole in the muzzleguns. | The vents should be the same. |
| Genitive | What? | Does it happen that the furnace does not have a vent? | I have never seen such vents. |
| Dative | What? | A small spider crawled along the muzzle of the stove. | The astronomer glanced over the vents of lunar craters. |
| Accusative | What? | It's scary to even look at the muzzle. | Anatoly spent the night looking through a telescope at the vents of alien volcanoes. |
| Instrumental | What? | The stove-maker leaned over the muzzle of the stove. | Volcanic vents are the holes that terminate the channels coming from the volcanic foci. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | What can you see in the vent? | You can read about muzzles in the encyclopedia of firearms. |
Stress in the word mouth
Some people stress the first syllable, others the second. Which one is right?
The vent is a word consisting of five letters and the same number of sounds, of which two sounds are vowels: “e” and “o”. From all of the above, it follows that the noun we are studying can be divided into two syllables: zher-lo. The stress falls on the first syllable.
