In professional, conversational and book speech differentiate the use of plural forms of some nouns masculine with a base on a consonant. These also include the names of persons by profession, which, depending on the style of speech, may have the ending - s(s) or - a(s).
Word accountant refers to a group of masculine nouns denoting a person on a professional basis. Like other nouns of this group, it can have a productive meaning modern language ending – A or the traditional ending, fixed by literary norm - s.
Form accountants should be differentiated from the synonymous form accountant. Its writing and use in oral speech must correspond to the style appropriate in a particular speech situation.
In everyday and professional communication it is acceptable to use the form accountant: in colloquial and professional speech it does not go beyond the language norm.
Accountants will confirm the correctness of all calculations.
Accountants are being rented out reporting documentation after the staff of the statistical department.
Form accountants is considered bookish, used primarily in official, business and journalistic styles of writing.
An organization requires experienced accountants.
The circle of bank employees includes accountants, economists and financiers.
Spelling words accountants And accountant has parallel forms that correspond to the spelling norms of the language, but their use in speech is not unambiguous and requires stylistic differentiation.
- Forms accountant And accountants should be distinguished by stylistic affiliation.
- In professional communication and oral colloquial speech form accountant established itself as normative, not contradicting the requirements of Russian literary language.
- In official, business and journalistic styles use the form correctly accountants.
Declension of the word by case: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional. In plural and singular. Convenient search for declensions for words, more than 50098 words in our database. Watch the tutorial on how to correctly inflect words.
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It is important to know about word declension
Changing nouns by case is characterized by changing their endings, which are called case forms. In total, there are six cases in the Russian language, each of which has its own auxiliary question.
In order to determine the case of a noun, you need to try asking one of the auxiliary questions to it.
There are also indeclinable names nouns, i.e. those that have the same form in all cases. Indeclinables include both common nouns (for example, “coffee” or “cocoa”) and proper names (for example, “Goethe”).
As a rule, indeclinable nouns turn out to be words borrowed from foreign languages. They can belong to all three genera.
The declension of numerals does not have a single pattern; it is represented by several types:
- The numeral one is declined as a singular adjective: one - one (new - new).
- The numerals from five to ten and the numerals -twenty and -ten are declined as nouns of the 3rd declension. Numerals with -ten have two endings, since both parts change: fifty, fifty.
- The numerals forty, ninety, one hundred, one and a half and one and a half hundred, changing according to cases, have only two forms: nominative and accusative cases- forty, ninety, one hundred, one and a half, one and a half hundred; genitive, dative, instrumental, prepositional cases- forty, ninety, one hundred, one and a half, one and a half hundred.
- Numerals from two hundred to four hundred and from five hundred to nine hundred are declined according to special type.
- Collective numbers are also declined according to a special type. Both numerals, both have two different declension options.
- Simple ordinal numbers are declined like adjectives: first (new) - first (new). Complex ordinal numbers have only one ending. For compound ordinal numbers, only the last part changes.
- For fractional numerals, both parts change when declension occurs.
For many plural nouns nominative case, according to the rules of the Russian language, it is necessary to write the endings -ы, -и, even if this is not always familiar to the ear. For the ear, on the contrary, these and similar words, which have an oscillating form of the nominative plural, with the endings -a, -ya, are more familiar. This can be explained by the fact that the use of professional and colloquial forms of these words prevails over the forms defined by the literary language. In other words, due to the fact that it is more convenient for us to talk this way, a replacement occurs literary forms. Vernacular language is being introduced into the literary language.
How to pronounce and speak correctly
Thus, the correct spelling should be accountants, not accountantA. The ending "a" is only used in conversation. Another rule of the Russian language also applies: masculine nouns, which indicate the type professional activities, in plural are written with the ending -ы. According to this rule, the word ACCOUNTANTS is also written with the ending -ы. As well as the following words: instructor - in the plural it is correct to write INSTRUCTORS, chauffeur - CHAFERS. The exception is the word inspector. By spelling dictionary, you should write INSPECTOR, but in the new explanatory dictionary INSPECTORS. So both forms are correct. The word choice in the nominative plural is correctly written ELECTIONS;
- board - BOARD;
- buffet - BUFFETS;
- workshop - SHOP;
- coat of arms - COATS OF ARMS;
- image - IMAGES.
For the word corps, both plural forms are correct: CORPS and CORPS. Different spellings and pronunciations result from the formation of the plural form of this noun. In the first case, the word “building” can mean a building, structure, then correct form the plural would be BODIES (clinic buildings, factory buildings). However, in the second case the body has direct relation to the human body. Then the word corps will be correctly spelled CORPS (the activists straightened their hulls). These nouns have different meanings.
State linguistic culture V modern Russia leaves much to be desired. And the reason for this is not at all the orientation towards Western culture and not a lack of desire to read, as the media laments.
A wide range of dictionaries in which you can find different spellings of the same word, heated debates among linguists over spelling individual words, a huge flow of literature that has not been processed by a competent proofreader, clogging speech with inappropriate slang words- Here the real reason prosperity of illiteracy. Language norms exist not for their own sake, but, first of all, so that people understand each other, avoid ambiguity and, finally, preserve the national linguistic wealth.
How often in offices can you hear ringing instead of ringing, catalog instead of catalogue, etc. Moreover, more and more often interlocutors are beginning to think about the pronunciation of words in the plural: director or directors, accountant or accountants, agreements or agreements? All this is slowly but surely shaking traditional literary norms Russian language and leads to a general decline in culture.
In modern Russian there are approximately 300 words in which the nominative plural is “fluctuating”, with variations. Moreover, the norm of stress in some words has changed over time, reflecting the development of the system of declensions of Russian nouns. So, for example, in late XIX– at the beginning of the 20th century, directors were called directors, and professors were called professors. Over the past century, irreversible changes have occurred. Endings with -а (-я) began to reign in common speech and “professional” jargon, and forms with -ы (-и) turned out to be more neutral, more traditional for the literary language (editors, instructors, proofreaders). But do not forget that there are exceptions to all rules.
Directors, contracts, accountants - these are the norms that have become the ONLY POSSIBLE ones!
- The directors of large factories arrived, the directors gathered, we wrote a letter to the directors.
- Our company has concluded agreements.
- The accountants calculated the estimate, etc.
The spelling (ending and stress) of the words director, accountant, contract, etc. is subject to the rule “Endings of the nominative plural of masculine nouns -ы(-и) – -а(-я)”. This rule is quite complicated. If the ending -or/-er/-er is stressed, then it is often preserved in the plural form, i.e. gives -ers, -ors: contracts, drivers, gliders, engines, fences, engineers, gentlemen. In other cases, nouns, especially animate ones, with -or/-er in the plural have a strong tendency to shift the emphasis to the ending: doctor, cadet, boat, etc. But there are also a lot counter examples, in particular, accountants, trainers, etc. In addition, there are a number of factors that directly influence the spelling of one or another ending in a word. All this is described in detail (with numerous examples) in spelling reference books.
However to the common man(for a non-philologist) it will be difficult to form the plural form of the nominative case, guided by the points of the rules. Therefore, take my word for it - it’s better to just remember some words. Otherwise, you can easily “confuse” the desired rule. Better yet, at least occasionally, look into the dictionary.
A little humor
When memorizing, you can be guided by association rhymes:
- directorA – masterA
- contracts are thieves
- accountants - planners
Many people are interested in the answer to the question of how to correctly spell the word “accountant” in the plural. The fact is that the Russian language assumes both options for the use of nouns in the plural and masculine with a consonant as a base, which, among other things, indicate professional skills (for example: accountant, professor). But the point is that they exist different styles communication.
Colloquial (modern) speech
Colloquial (modern) speech involves the use of the above nouns, ending with the letter A. Therefore, when you say, for example, that “at work, accountants are often late in the evenings,” this will be quite acceptable.
Book (traditional) speech
It's another matter if you read a newspaper, or scientific article. In the Bookstore or traditional speech, masculine plural nouns with a stem ending in a consonant and indicating professional skills, are used ending in the letter Y. In this case, it would be more correct to say this: “accountants are constantly late at work in the evenings.”
Taking into account the above, we can say the following: in order to correctly use “accountant” in the plural, you need to decide what kind of speech you are using. In this case, no one can blame your literacy.
