Today, Minsk is the largest city in the Republic of Belarus. Its population is about two million people. Currently, there are several points of view on how to name its inhabitants. We will describe some of them.
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The formation of ethnic burials (names of residents of a particular locality) is sometimes fraught with some difficulties, since far from all toponyms names can be formed. At first, the name of the capital of the Republic of Belarus raises a lot of questions among the guests of the city - since it is not clear what word should be used to refer to local residents. However, if you know the rules of the Russian language, you can easily form an ethno-burial from the word "Minsk".
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In the Russian language, there are several suffixes for the formation of ethno-burials from the name of a city. It is traditionally believed that for place names ending in -sk and -sk, the suffixes -an- and -yan- are most often used. In particular, for the name ending in the combination of consonants -sk, the suffix -an- is characteristic. Words with a given suffix often get the extension -h-, and as a result, the suffix takes the form -chan-.
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We use the suffix word formation method in relation to the name of the city of Minsk. Having rejected the last two consonants, we add the suffix to the base of the noun, and we get the word "Minskers". Accordingly, the word denoting a resident of Minsk will be the word "Minsk resident", and the word denoting a resident will be "Minsk resident".
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There is a curious word "minchuk" - at the same time it is both a surname that is in use in the western part of Belarus and the Rivne region of Ukraine, and the original ethno-buried. Thus, if you use this word in the plural, you get the word "minchuk". This noun can also be used calmly to refer to residents of the Belarusian capital.
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