How correctly to incline female and man's surnames
The writing of names and surnames, at first sight, is notcauses no difficulties. But it turns out that many people do not know how to properly incline them. Often we even have to face problems because an employee of some public service incorrectly inclined and brought it into the documentation.
Today we will consider declining surnames,terminating in a, both foreign and Russian. Linguists themselves consider these cases to be one of the most difficult. To correctly tip the surname on a, it is necessary to take into account a lot of factors.
What kind of
Which letters are before the final "a"
Shock or unstressed last syllable
Origin
Declination of female and male surnames of different origins
At the end of surnames of foreign origin,in addition to the letter a, often there is one more consonant. The most popular letter is u or u. In this case, she will not be inclined, regardless of gender. For example, Galois, Morua, Delacroix.
Surnames of French origin are also not inclined (Dumas, Lucas, Degas).
If the word has an Eastern or Slavicthe origin, it will change according to the first declension. For example, Mitta can be changed to Mittu, Mittt and so on. Kvasha or Kocherga varies according to the same rules.
How to correctly surname
To properly decline, you also need to determine the impact of the syllable ending in "a".
If before the "a" is a consonant, and the syllable itselfunstressed, they will change according to the first declension. This can be explained by the fact that, according to the rules of the Russian language, the last letter can be identified as the end of the lexeme. For example, Bulat Okudzhava, but the songs of Bulat Okudzhava.
If the last syllable is percussive, you need to pay attention to whether it is possible to separate the letter "a" as an ending. More often than not, the French surnames fall under the category of those who do not fall in love, which we mentioned above.
Female surnames on a are inclined. But here there are certain nuances. If the letter is a part of the ending -in, -owa or other similar, then there will be no problems (Petrova-Petrov, Semenova-Semenova). Quite a different case-Smolodin, Shkidin. In this case, much depends on the male version. If the masculine rhodeon sounds like Shkidin, then in the case of a woman, the decline will occur as follows: Natalia Shkidina - the parish Natalia Shkidina.
If a man has the surname Shkidin, then for a woman it will be more correct to speak Natalia Shkidina - the arrival of Natalia Shkidina.
A similar situation is with declining surnames that end in the letter I. French with an accent on the last syllable, do not bow (Zola, Troyat). All the others are changing (Golovnya, Beria, Danelia).
If the male surname ends in a consonant, then it tends according to the usual rules, regardless of the origin (Darwin-Darwin, Block-Bloc).
To avoid being embarrassed or,even worse, do not get problems with documents, learn the options of declination beforehand. On the Internet there are a lot of works on grammar, which in detail and with practical examples will explain the use of a particular surname in the male and female gender and various cases.
And although the decline of surnames to a rather complicatedlinguistic theme, with some study of the subject you will not have problems with this. Be sure to follow the development of the grammar of the language. Although it is not subject to frequent changes, nevertheless philologists constantly investigate words of foreign origin and it is possible that after a while your name will be inclined not at all like you are used to.
