In Russian, most words consist of two or more syllables. What follows from this? It is no secret to anyone that when reading or pronouncing words, difficulties can arise with the statement of stress, since there are no strict and logical rules governing the so-called word pulse. Many words should just be remembered. One of the words in which many emphasize incorrectly (on the first syllable) is the noun "alcohol".
Stress
In a word consisting of more than one syllable, one of them is always pronounced somewhat stronger than the others. Such a syllable is called stressed, the rest - unstressed.
Unstressed vowels are pronounced weakly, indistinctly and very quickly, so that one sound is simply mistaken for another (this phenomenon is called assimilation), but this does not interfere with understanding the meaning of oral utterances and does not distort them in any way. In the stressed syllable, the vowel sound is pronounced distinctly and clearly, two to three times longer than any other sound in this word.
Sometimes an incorrectly placed stress not only makes the word sound ugly or unpleasant, but also changes its meaning:
- CASTLE - CASTLE: Close the castle to the castle so that the dragon princesses are not fired.
- Atlas - atlas: My mother went shopping, bought myself an atlas for an evening dress, and my sister and I - atlases for a geography lesson.
- FLOUR - FLOUR: Real flour, with your hands, grind the grain into flour.
- Organ - Organ: Hearing organs must work perfectly in order to be accepted to school playing the organ.
- Redeem - redeem: Before you go to the pawnshop to redeem gold, you need to redeem the child and put him in a warm crib.
- Bran - branIf you eat only healthy bran, you want cakes or buns with sweets - it’s better to bran both hands.
Alcohol: proper stress
How to pronounce this word? Many people stress the word "alcohol" incorrectly - on the first syllable. It turns out - "Alcohol."
The stress in this noun is placed only on the last syllable. This must be remembered as twice two four.
Declination
This noun is a household, inanimate, masculine gender. It refers to the second declension. When changing this noun in cases and numbers, you should also pay special attention to the emphasis in the right place.
In addition, we must remember that "alcohol" refers to material nouns, it has only the grammatical form of the singular.
| Nominative | Alcohol is harmful not only for children and pregnant women, but for the whole of humanity. |
| Genitive | Fortunately, in our house there was not a drop *** me. |
| Dative | Ibrahim Sultanovich devoted *** the best years to his long, eventful life. |
| Accusative | The student correctly pronounced the word "alcohol", the emphasis was correct. |
| Instrumental | *** eat can be poisoned. |
| Prepositional | B *** e contains alcohol. |
A correctly set emphasis (in particular, in the word “alcohol”) is like a steady beating of a healthy heart: if the words are spoken correctly, you notice only the meaning of the pronounced lexemes and the phrases and sentences composed of them. Incorrect stress, on the contrary, catches our ears like a splinter.