Новый день — новая жизнь (к вопросу о роде имен существительных с мягким знаком на конце)
Новый день — новая жизнь (on the Subject of the Gender of Nouns with a Final Soft Sign)

Summary/Abstract: The grammatical gender of Russian substantives with a soft sign at the end not after sibilants is a “risk zones” not only for foreigners, but also for native speakers. The article describes the formation of a scientific and methodological concept of writing a soft sign at the end of nouns. The author identifies a number of noun models based on final letter combinations. In the author’s opinion, some models tend to a masculine or feminine nouns. The most problematic are the patterns in -аль, -ель, -оль, -ень, -рь, for which it is difficult to speak of any grammatical preference.

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