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Mark the stress in russian words with a ' character behind the vowel, e.g. ру'чки, this will be converted to ру́чки. Leave out the stress when it is unambiguous, which is when the word contains ё or only one vowel (the vowels are а, я, э, е, ы, и, о, ё, у and ю).

не́сколько

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some

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The words много, мало, немного, немало, сколько, несколько are used with different grammatical cases depending whether the object is countable or not: With genitive plural with countables and genitive singular with non-countables.

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В корзи́не лежи́т не́сколько я́блок. There are few apples in the basket.
На не́бе видне́лось не́сколько звёзд. There were several stars to be seen in the sky.
У меня есть не́сколько книг на англи́йском. I have some English books.
Боб отдал Ти́не почти все ма́рки, кото́рые собра́л, оставив себе лишь не́сколько. Bob gave Tina almost all the stamps he had collected, and kept only a few for himself.
Не́сколько люде́й поги́бло в автокатастрофе. A few people were killed in the car accident.
Пожалуйста, приведи́те нам не́сколько приме́ров. Please give us some examples.
Я покача́л не́сколько раз голово́й. I shook my head a few times.
Ми́стер Уайт сде́лал не́сколько коммента́риев к мое́й ре́чи. Mr White made a few comments on my speech.
Э́тот челове́к у́мер всего не́сколько часо́в назад. The man died a few hours ago.
Он верну́лся в родну́ю дере́вню, где провёл после́дние не́сколько лет жи́зни. He returned to his native village, where he spent the last few years of his life.