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[Yaduta]

Tatyana wrote:

"Dve osnovnye zadachi" is the way it's ideally should be said. Feminine
should take Nominative case with numerals from 1 to 4 (osnovnye) while
masculine and neuter take Genitive (osnovnykh). However, the norm's getting
rather shaky now (as with many other grammar points as well both in Russian
and English, I believe) and you can hear and, I think, even see in print
both versions, really.
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As far as I can assume numerals in the nominative case (and the
corresponding accusative one) govern the noun; what concerning the other
cases - noun agrees with the numeral. By this we declare the peculiar way of
combinability of numerals with nouns, which is the main so called
differential feature of the numeral.

This instance referring to the numeral "dva" ("two") is considered to be of
a true complexity according to the scholars. To some extent the given
examples: "dve osnovnye zadachi" (nominative governed) & "dve osnovnyh
zadachi" (genitive governed) are belived to be synonymic grammatical
constructions. When the accusative of the governed noun is used the category
of animate-inanimate may be concerned - its grammatical display (# if
animate noun in accusative case then consequently the genitive case of the
adjective). Yet the this may not be strictly followed.
That's to be short.

Faithfully, Vladimir

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