Two chairs

[Elena Gapova]

I believe,  "стулья" starts at 5 : 5, 6, 7... много стульев.

An old joke playing with the doubt in the correct form:

- Как надо писать: пУзырек или пИзырек?
- Пиши "флЮкончик".

e.g.

5 декабря 2009 г. 8:06 пользователь Andrey Shcherbenok <
shcherbenok at gmail.com> написал:

> As a native speaker, I always say "dva stula", never "dva stulia". So does
> Russian internet: if you google both (in quotation marks, so that it
> searches for the exact word combination only) you get 51800 vs 341 hits.
>
> Andrey
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> Hi All!
>
> Which do you prefer? Два стула  или два стулья ?
>
> The native speakers I know can't seem to decide, nor can the Russian
> internet. (Search either version on google, and you'll find useage of
> both.)
>
> Thanks for the input!
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