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сорок

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Russian

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Russian numbers (edit)
400
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4
    Cardinal: со́рок (sórok)
    Ordinal: сороково́й (sorokovój)
    Ordinal abbreviation: 40-ой (40-oj)
    Multiplier: сорокакра́тный (sorokakrátnyj)
    Fractional: сорокова́я (sorokovája)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old East Slavic сорокъ (sorokŭ, a bunch of 40 sable pelts; forty), displaced четꙑредесѧте (četyredesęte, forty) (< Proto-Slavic *četyre desęte (forty)).

Further etymology is unclear. In the past regarded as borrowed from Byzantine Greek σαράκοντα (sarákonta, 40), but this etymology is dubious for phonetic and semantic reasons. The older meaning is a bunch of sable pelts. May be related to соро́чка (soróčka); compare Old Norse serkr (shirt; 200 furs), archaic Slovak meru (40) from Hungarian mérő (sack).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsorək]
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Numeral

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со́рок (sórok)

  1. forty (40)
Usage notes
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сорок (sorok) in the nominative case and accusative case governs the genitive plural of the noun. In other cases, it governs the corresponding plural case of the noun.

Declension
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References

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Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сорок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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соро́к (sorókf anim pl

  1. genitive/accusative plural of соро́ка (soróka)

Ukrainian

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400
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4
    Cardinal: со́рок (sórok)
    Ordinal: сороко́вий (sorokóvyj)
    Collective: сорока́ (soroká)

Etymology

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From Old East Slavic сорокъ (sorokŭ, a bunch of 40 sable pelts), cognates include Russian со́рок (sórok) and Belarusian со́рак (sórak); further origin is unknown.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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со́рок (sórok)

  1. forty (40)

Declension

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Declension of со́рок
(pl-only)
plural
nominative со́рок
sórok
genitive сорока́
soroká
dative сорока́
soroká
accusative со́рок
sórok
instrumental сорока́
soroká
locative сорока́
soroká
vocative

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