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мужчи́на

noun, male, animate
often used word (#390)

Noun basics

Noun gender partner (e.g. кошка for кот):

Is it living?: (unknown) inanimate animate

Translation

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Man

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Мой преподава́тель кита́йского — мужчи́на. My Chinese teacher is a man.
Мужчи́на ел хлеб. The man was eating bread.
Я зна́ю мужчи́ну, кото́рый сиди́т вон там. I know the man sitting over there.
Я мужчи́на. I'm a man.
Мужчи́ны прихо́дят в фо́рму, ездя на велосипе́дах. The men are getting into shape riding bicycles.
Мужчи́на реши́л подожда́ть на ста́нции, пока не придёт его жена́. The man decided to wait at the station until his wife came.
Семидесятиле́тний мужчи́на держа́л свою́ двадцатиле́тнюю жену́ всё вре́мя дома — он вёл себя как соба́ка на се́не. The seventy-year-old man kept his twenty-year-old wife at home all the time; he had a dog-in-the-manger attitude.
Все чле́ны клу́ба, кроме меня, — мужчи́ны. All the members of our club, excluding me, are men.
По оши́бке был арестован невино́вный мужчи́на. An innocent man was arrested by mistake.
Он уже мужчи́на. He's already a man.

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Declension

Normal Singular only Plural only Indeclinable

	singular	plural
nom. nominative	мужчи́на	мужчи́ны
gen. genitive	мужчи́ны	мужчи́н
dat. dative	мужчи́не	мужчи́нам
acc. accusative	мужчи́ну	мужчи́н
inst. instrumental	мужчи́ной мужчи́ною	мужчи́нами
prep. prepositional	мужчи́не	мужчи́нах