declension table

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

In NAGDIP order because that's how I think of it.

It should be safe for reference now, but when in doubt, check something more official.

Nom	новый дом	новая книга	новое окно	новые книги
Acc	новый дом	новую книгу	новое окнo	новыe книги
Gen	нового дома	новой книги	нового oкна	новых домов	новых книг/новых окон
Dat	новому дому	новой книге	новому окну	новым книгам
Instr	новым домом	новой книгой	новым окном	новыми книгами
Prep	новом доме	новой книге	новом окне	новых книгах

Comments

[yers.livejournal.com]

the correct order is NGDAIP.

accusative of новое окно is новое окно, no change even in the stress.

новые книги.

feminine genitive, новых книг (zero ending)
feminine accusative, новые книги (zero ending)
and you can add neuter genitive, новых окон

it's a convention to add a sample preposition in brackets, usually (о), before prepositional because it never occurs on its own.

finally, if you are making a gender-based declension table (rather than pattern-based) you will need to take two sample words for masc & neuter (one hard and one soft), and three for feminine (hard/soft/ending in -ь), plus provide an extra example with masc. accusative sg&pl and fem. accusative pl. to illustrate the different endings for animate nouns.

I didn't mean it to sound like I was nit-picking, you've done a great job and if you just specify that this is a declension table for Hard Inanimate nouns, and maybe change книга to something more regular, like волна (because with г,к,х as the final base consonant there's the extra issue of ы becoming и), your table will be perfect.

[yers.livejournal.com]

cancel the second "zero ending", copy/pasted and forgot to delete :)

NGDAIP looks like the name of a political party even nastier than NSDAP :))

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

You're not nitpicking; it's important to get every letter right when declining, or else it (might) turns what you mean into something wrong/nonsensical.

As for the order (NGDAIP vs NAGDIP), I went with NAGDIP because this table is ultimately a tool for my own use, and that's how I think of the order (there are several useful mneumonic devices in NAGDIP order that I use). As for including hard and soft words, the ending changes are mostly spelling changes that are regular and predictable, so to use this table, I assume you know how softening affects spelling (and how animate masc. acc. uses gen. forms). I've seen tables that take everything into account (hard/soft/irregular/animate) and they're huge, which defeats the purpose of having one small table to refer to.

Thanks for going over it

[yers.livejournal.com]

As for including hard and soft words, the ending changes are mostly spelling changes that are regular and predictable

you're quite right there... the only challenges are -ем instead of -ом in the instr.sg., but even that can be inferred phonetically, since you can't have an unaccented ё, and an occasional -ей in the genitive plural.

at Russian schools, masculine and neuter declension is taught as a single pattern, but the two feminines (книга vs. степь) are separated.

[karakal.livejournal.com]

Всё верно, только - gen. нового окнА.

[yers.livejournal.com]

indeed... haven't noticed that.

actually, maybe you could do altogether without accent marks, because emphasis shift in declension is something very difficult to predict, there are of course patterns there but so many of them it's sometimes confusing even to native speakers.

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

- fixed (again)

I wanted to mark the acc/gen difference because it is a major pattern with neuter nouns, and one that I (as I have shown here!) can never remember which gets which emphasis. But I took your advice and closed that can of worms.

[yers.livejournal.com]

you still have новое окна for neuter acc., which should be окно

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Fixed, thanks.