Hi guys,
I made this short video lesson which explains the Prepositional case in -У for certain masculine nouns.
Do you have any additional comments?
All the best,
Angelos
It might be worthwhile to contrast that the stress does not go to the last syllable when -y is added for the dative case. But I don’t know whether that is so in every example – is к берегу stressed differently than на берегу, and likewise for all the single-syllable roots?
That’s absolutely right. бе’регу - dative.
As far as I know, dative and locative in у don’t always differ in stress position. The rule is that the у in the prepositional is always stressed, whereas in the dative the stress is the same as in the other cases in the singular. Therefore, the stress in dative and prepositional coincide in nouns that stress the ending in the singular. The only example that comes to mind is мост, whose dative and prepositional are pronounced identically на мостУ, по мостУ vs. на полУ, по пОлу
A related phenomenon seems to happen in a few feminine nouns ending in the soft sign, which are stressed on the ending in the prepositional but on the stem in other cases (such as the dative). Examples are: степь, сеть, грязь, пыль, цепь
I wonder, though, how consistent native speakers are in this respect. For example in the classical song “Тёмная Ночь” I hear
¨Только пули свистят по степИ", instead of the expected по стЕпи
Could native speakers comment on this?
Yeah I’ve heard “в связИ с” even though wiktionary says the stress is stable.
Wiktionary says there may be end stress in the singular of степь.