Stress. Part I. Stress in nouns. Lesson 12. Trisyllabic neuter nouns with stress shift. Ударение. Часть I. Урок 12. Трехсложные существительные среднего рода со сдвигом ударения.

In some trisyllabic neuter nouns stress shift also takes place, in one direction or the other, e.g.


1. moving one syllable towards the end of the word. Thus óзeро, lake, has plural озёрa, озёр, etc.;

2. moving one syllable towards the beginning of the word. Thus рeмeслó has plural рeмёслa, рeмёсeл, etc.;

3. moving from the first syllable to the ending. Thus зéркaло, mirror, крýжeво, lace, and óблaко, cloud, have зeркaлá, кружeвá and облaкá, etc., respectively (except that крýжeво has genitive plural крýжeв; NB also that the genitive plural of облaкá is облaкóв).