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RUSLAN 1</B>
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Foreign words
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You can tell the gender of foreign words that have been imported into Russian by their endings, except for the word кофе which is masculine. This is believed to be because when the word was originally imported into Russian it was spelled кофий, and nouns in -й are masculine.






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