Великий Новгород
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Russian
Alternative forms
- Вели́кій Но́вгородъ (Velíkij Nóvgorod) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
The medieval Novgorod Republic used the appellation Господи́н Вели́кий Но́вгород (Gospodín Velíkij Nóvgorod, “Lord Novgorod the Great”). The form Вели́кий Но́вгород (Velíkij Nóvgorod, “Novgorod the Great”) continued to be occasionally used over the following centuries to distinguish Novgorod from Nizhny Novgorod, and was adopted as Novgorod's official name in 1999.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Вели́кий Но́вгород • (Velíkij Nóvgorod) m inan (genitive Вели́кого Но́вгорода, relational adjective новгоро́дский or великоновгоро́дский)
- Veliky Novgorod, formerly known simply as Novgorod (a city, the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast, Russia)
Declension
Declension of Вели́кий Но́вгород (inan sg-only masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Вели́кий Но́вгород Velíkij Nóvgorod |
| genitive | Вели́кого Но́вгорода Velíkovo Nóvgoroda |
| dative | Вели́кому Но́вгороду Velíkomu Nóvgorodu |
| accusative | Вели́кий Но́вгород Velíkij Nóvgorod |
| instrumental | Вели́ким Но́вгородом Velíkim Nóvgorodom |
| prepositional | Вели́ком Но́вгороде Velíkom Nóvgorode |
Related terms
- Но́вгород (Nóvgorod)