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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A7 Stress (u/c) 523 / 600

an unstressed preposition before the noun, the stress again shifts to it, but it's still

falling. In fact, it shifts as leftward as it can:

vodu

u-vodu

i-u-vodu

Such shift is the reason for my "special case" notation – when no vowels are

underlined, as in A and N-pl of "C" nouns – there's a falling intonation stress on the

very first syllable, including all unstressed words before the noun that are

pronounced together with it.

There's no way to tell which nouns are in the group "C" just by looking at them in the

nominative – they must be remembered. Textbooks say there's about 60 such a-

nouns. The common ones are:

daska plank

grāna branch

grēda wooden beam

igla needle

kosa hair (on scalp)

metla broom

ovca sheep

pčela bee

pēta heel

rosa dew

srijēda Wednesday

strijēla arrow

sŕna fem. roe deer

stijēna rock

strāna side

vōjska army

zora dawn

zīma winter

zvijēzda star

The nouns above have the strange "automatic" falling stress only in A. However, a

couple of common nouns can have such stress in DL as well:

dūša soul

glāva head

noga leg

(The rest is coming soon...)

rūka arm/hand

voda water

zemlja ground, country, Earth

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