Do you know what a couple is? What does this word mean? What part of speech does it belong to? Does it bow? And if inclined, by what type? Is it possible to replace this short word with other words that are close in meaning? You will learn about all this by reading this article.
Cheta: what is it?
Let's start with the lexical meaning of the word (you can see it in the usual school dictionary). The word "couple" has several, to one degree or another, close meanings:
- two identical items;
- married couple;
- equal on any basis;
- partisan detachment on the Balkan Peninsula.
Phonetic and morphological characteristics, declination
The “couple” consists of four letters and four sounds: two vowels and two consonants. Since there are two vowels, the word "couple" is divided into two syllables: four. In words consisting of more than one syllable, a stress problem may arise. In the word we are studying, the stress falls on the second syllable.
It should be noted that in the unstressed syllable the vowel "e" is written.
What is this from the point of view of morphology? Firstly, it is a noun. Secondly, the noun is a common noun and inanimate. Thirdly, the feminine noun and, like all feminine nouns ending in "-a", refers to the first type of declension.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | An excited couple entered the room, “What happened”, all those present thought at once and stared at the people who entered. | four |
| Genitive | What? | The year before last, scientists dug up the mummies of the four pharaohs. | even |
| Dative | Why? | The doctor did an invaluable service to the august couple, he completely cured their son, even a trace of a terrible ailment was left. | what's up there |
| Accusative | What? | Nobody met the Petukhovs at the station. | four |
| Instrumental case | Than? | A couple is called a pair of homogeneous objects or a married couple. | chetam |
| Prepositional | About what? | Andrei Mikhailovich had never before heard of the Privalov couple. | about chet |
By the way, the plural of the noun “couple” is extremely rare in everyday speech.
Couple: synonyms
Synonyms are words that are one and the same part of speech, written and pronounced differently, but having the same or similar meaning. In Russian, almost every word has at least one synonym. The noun "couple" is no exception. What is this, in other words?
Synonyms: couple, spouses, deuce, equal.