Small clarification. Last digit matters for all digits BESIDES when a number ends on 11-19. Those would be in gentile plural. 1 телефон 2 телефона 5 телефонов 11 телефонов 12 телефонов 22 телефона 25 телефонов 100 телефонов 101 телефон 102 телефона 111 телефонов 112 телефонов 122 телефона 125 телефонов Etc.

that concept pretty much covers time, money, years, and any other unit associated with a number broken down into a short video. good job 👍

Same concept but also with the word year. 1 год 2-4 года 5+,0 лет

You gotta love Russian for how complicated it is for no reason.

Bottom Line? Fedor is simplifying some rules that are not all that easy. If a Russian number ends in a soft sign, use genitive plural for a noun that follows. Now for Fedor's rules which only apply in SOME situations, mainly when the number is in the nominative or accusative case (complicating matters is whether nouns are animate or inanimate}. Take "one" for example. The case, number, and question of whether the noun is animate or not determine the form the Russian number "один" takes. If the number ends in "один," then the noun will end in nominative (or accusative) singular. If the number ends in "одна," then the noun must be in the nominative singular, as in одна девушка. But if the number ends in "одного," as in I see one boy/Я вижу одного мальчика, the noun, as you see, must be in the corresponding accusative case for ANIMATE objects. In the sentence "I see one girl"/"Я вижу одну девушку," you can see that the noun must be in the accusative case. For the numbers 2, 3, 4, the noun is in the genitive singular only when the numbers end thus "два, три, четыре." If the numbers are in different cases (oblique cases), those cases will determine the case of the noun that follows. ..... Sorry, Fedor, for complicating what you clearly intended to be a simple lesson. I see many folks on KZfaq who are learning Russian say to forget the grammar. You will be understood. I suppose that advice would go double for these confounding Russian numbers.

You say at 1:50 that the gen. pl. ending “works with numbers from 10 to 20”, but the main take-away from the video seems to be that it’s the “last number” that counts. I love your channel but I feel that as long as we’re addressing this topic you should point out that for 11 to 14 it’s *not* the last number that counts. Those are gen. pl. anyway. Thank you!

The genitive singular is also used with 1½, which is полтора for masculine and neuter, and полторы for feminine. So "a week and a half" would be "полторы недели" and "a month and a half" would be "полтора месяца".

Very useful lesson. Keep it up dude

you have no idea how much I appreciate you. I love your face, my brother.

excellent explanation...simple and to the point compared to so many other videos that threw all rules into one video and had my head spinning...

It was a great lesson Fedor) keep it up

thank you for this video fedor! cheers

Thank u ! I needed this

Thank you very much. Спасибо😊

Perhaps it's all that Russian food I've been eating, but your explanation using the Rusdian word for "telephone" makes sense

1...nominative singular ... 2 to 4 ....genitive singular 5 +,0...genitive singular 101 nominative singular 102.....genitive singular

You should do a video about this topic, but concerning how numbers affect adjectives.

I just had this topic at a course :P

All about "cases" video needed

★ In Russian the last digit matters. So if the last digit of the number is two [2] we use the second line : телефона [telefona ] For example: -Forty two [42] phones. Сорок два [42] телефона. Sorok dva [42] telefona. ★ The last digit is two[2]. That's why we have to use genitive singular  телефона [telefona ]. ★ This can be very strange, especially if we have digit one [1]at the end . -I have hundred and one phones. У меня есть сто один {101}телефон. U menya yest' sto adin {101}telefon. ★ As you can see the “phone” at the end is put in a singular nominative Form. But I have a hundred and one[101]. How does that make any sense ? it's supposed to be plural. It's supposed to be Телефоны [Telefony]. No, Russian doesn't work that way. So to bring it all back full circle -if you don't specify the number of things you have it's going be only two forms --singular and plural. That's it . ★ But then if you do specify the amount of phones or amount of things you have  Two, three, four is going to use Genitive singular. Five, six, seven ,eight, nine and zero are going to have Genitive plural forms. But the only thing that matters is the very last digit of that number ; not the whole number, but the very last digit.

"In a NORMAL language, it is this way. But in Russian..."

Hello friends! How are you? Привет Друзья! Как дела? Privyet druz'ya! Kak dela? My name is Fedor. And today you will learn how cases work with numbers. Now when it comes to conjugating or changing each numeral to different cases you can find that on any dictionary online. But there's other ways that numbers can influence which case we have to use with a noun. 1. So let's start off with this a word for a phone : Телефон [Telefon ] Singular is going to be: Telephone. Plural is going to be : Telephones. Телефоны [Telefony] ★ So in the regular language right that's it -singular plural; one phone two and more phones. This in Russian is true if we don't mention a number or the exact number of phones that we have if it's in the plural form. So let's give you guys examples : -I have a phone. У меня есть телефон. U menya yest' telefon. -I have phones. У меня есть телефоны. U menya yest' telefony.  I don't specify how many phones I have. That's why I can use {Телефоны [Telefony] = phones}in this one. 2. INTRODUCING NUMBERS However as soon as we start introducing how many phones we have, this gets Changed. So here is the rule : ★ Whenever the number of phones is one- so just “one phone “ It is going to be nominative singular.  1 Nominative singular  телефон [Telefon] ★ Now if it's two, three or four it's going to be genitive singular . 2-4 Genitive singular телефона [telefona ] ★ If it's five and onwards like :five, six, seven, eight, nine including a zero[10] too, it is going to be genitive plura.l 5-10+ Genitive plural телефонов.[telefonav] ★ So we have the [ов=ov/of] ending. 3. Телефонов .[telefonav] And the last- the third one also works from with numbers from 10 to 20. So 11, 12, 13, 14, all of that is also going to be: Телефонов .[telefonav] And this is where is what is also interesting. You might think “ okay one is it's easy “. One=Телефон. 2-4 Genitive singular телефона [telefona ] 5-10+ Genitive plural телефонов.[telefonav] All the rest [10-onwards] is телефонов.[telefonav] It's not going to be the case.

You read my mind again what

Remembering my Russian from college 40 years ago. To be fair...now pick an example that ends in a vowel! Different, no? Not so simple anymore.

I think you had a collaboration short with a girl about difference in decimals between English and Russian. Please send me exact name of it and name of that another KZfaqr.

Let's have fun У меня есть 2 (два) телефона - Gen. Sg У меня нет 2 (двух) телефонов Gen Pl У меня 2 (две) красивые подружки - красивые Non Pl подружки Gen Sg У меня 2 (два) весёлых друга - весёлых (Gen Pl) друга (Gen Pl). Ждём концептуальных объяснений )

What if I say 112, 122, 1002, etc phones? Here we must say “телефона” (genitive singular)?? Thanks.

I have a Russian-speaking girlfriend and I was wondering if I can use the Russian word for baby as a term of endearment? In English, we call our lovers babe or baby, can we use these words translated into Russian or would that sound weird to a native Russian speaker? I currently use the word дорогой

I cannot believe how many Russian words are simular to Spanish including telephone / teléfono.

Скажите пожалуйста, как сможем использовать на женский род на примере (девушка, юбка, машина) такая можно вы объясните? На какой падеж мы можем использовать?

thankfully as my objective is to wear addidas, eat sunflower seeds, and drink with my friends I don't think i need to blyat sukha chto to eto grammatika idi na hui though yeah, if you want to be a diplomat this lesson is a must. liked and commented.

How about "I defeated the enemy BY (means of) 123 bombings?"

Yeah but телефон it's masculine noun. You didn't mention what are the endings for femenine and neutral nouns. Femenine: 1: книга 2-4: книги 5+: книг Neutral. 1: яйцо 2-4: яйца 5+: яйц :)

"no, Russian doesn't work that way."