Noun as part of speech: attributes

The noun is one of the most commonly used parts of speech in Russian. It is used to indicate objects, but it can perform other functions. What signs can she possess?

A noun, which is often called simply a noun, is a special part of speech, the range of application of which in the Russian language is very wide. Quite often it is used to denote various kinds of objects (for example, a bed), but they can also indicate actions (for example, running), conditions (for example, fear) or quality (for example, blue) of objects and persons. All these variants of nouns are united by the fact that they must answer the question "Who?" or "what?"

Morphological and syntactic features of a noun

The morphological features of this part of speech include three main categories - gender, case and number. Moreover, each of these signs has a variational character, although the degree of this variability may vary. So, in Russian, a noun can belong to one of three genders (masculine, feminine or middle), can be in one of six cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental or prepositional), have the form of one of two numbers (singular or plural). In this case, the change in the noun by cases and numbers is called declination.

The syntactic features of this part of speech include positions that a noun can occupy in a sentence. So, most often it acts as a subject, informing that or who is the subject of the action. However, it can also serve as a supplement, definition (basically consistent with the rest of the proposal by means of prepositions), circumstances (for example, circumstances of the place) and other members of the proposal.