I *REALLY* hope you meant 'inflections', although with the Novichok thing......
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I did! haha!
Was only regaling a Russian joke about their complicated grammar, the five pokers joke 'pyat kochergeri'
"The genitive plural of a noun (used with a numeral to indicate five or more of something, as opposed to the dual, used for two, three, or four) is a rather unpredictable form of the Russian noun, and there are a handful of words which native speakers have trouble producing this form of (either due to rarity or an actual lexical gap). A common example of this is
kocherga (fireplace poker). The joke is set in a Soviet factory. Five pokers are to be requisitioned. The correct forms are acquired, but as they are being filled out, a debate arises: what is the genitive plural of
kocherga? Is it
Kocherg? Kocherieg? Kochergov?... One thing is clear: a form with the wrong genitive plural of
kocherga will bring disaster from the typically-pedantic bureaucrat. Finally, an old janitor overhears the commotion, and tells them to send in two separate requisitions: one for two
kochergi and another for three
kochergi. In some versions, they send in a request for 4
kochergi and one extra to find out the correct word, only to receive back "here are your 4
kochergi and one extra." (In reality, a bureaucrat would likely resort to a trick like "Kocherga: 5 items"