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Russian spelling rule #1 states that ы never follows г, к, х, ж, ш, щ, or ч, and и takes its place.

You'll encounter this rule in plurals and adjectives.

• Plurals: книга becomes книги (not книгы), because the stem ends in г.
• After х, adjectives take -ий: hence тихий (quiet), never тыхый.
• Even when и sounds like ы (after ж, ш, щ, ч), you still write и.

Master this rule first, and plurals and adjective endings become predictable.

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Cyrillic script for Russian has exactly 33 letters, organised into consonants, vowels, and two silent markers.

The structure works like this:

• 21 consonants: б, в, г, д, ж, з, й, к, л, м, н, п, р, с, т, ф, х, ц, ч, ш, щ. Some look like Latin letters but sound different.
• 10 vowel letters form pairs: а/я, у/ю, о/ё, ы/и, э/е, where the second softens consonants.
• Special markers (2): ь softens the preceding consonant, while ъ separates consonants from soft vowels.

Watch out for false friends: Russian Р sounds like English "r", not "p"; Russian С sounds like "s", not "c".

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