Noun Gender

There are three genders in Russian: masculine, feminine and neuter. You can usually determine the gender of a noun by its ending. Here are some basic rules, though exceptions exist:

Word	Ending
äîì	in a consonant
÷àé	in -é

Ó ìåíÿ åñòü äîì. - I have a house.
ß ïüþ ÷àé. - I'm drinking tea.

Feminine:

Word	Ending
ìàøèíà	in -a
ñåìüÿ	in -ÿ

Ó ìåíÿ åñòü ìàøèíà - I have a car.
Ó ìåíÿ åñòü ñåìüÿ - I have a family.

Neuter:

Word	Ending
ïèñüìo	in -o
ïëàòüe	in -e

ß ïîëó÷èë ïèñüìî. - I've got a letter.
Ó ìîåé æåíû åñòü ïëàòüå. - My wife has a dress.

Number

English plurals end in -s. In Russian, there are more endings to make plurals. They are all summed up in the table:

Noun type	Ending for plural	Example
masculine ending in a hard consonant	-û	ñòîë - ñòîëû
any nouns ending in -ü, -é, -ÿ	-è	äâeðü - äâåðè
masculine and feminine ending in -k, -ã, -x, -÷, -ù, -æ, -ø,	-è	íîãà - íîãè
neuter ending in -o	-a	îêíî - îêía
neuter ending in -e	-ÿ	ìoðå - ìîðÿ

 êîìíàòå åñòü ñòîë. - There is a table in a room.
 îôèñå ñòîÿò ñòîëû. - There are tables in an office.
 êîìíàòå åñòü äâåðü. - There is a door in a room.
Îíè îòêðûëè âñå äâåðè. - They opened all the doors.
Îäíà íîãà. - One leg.
Äâå íîãè. - Two legs.
 êîìíàòå åñòü îêíî. - There is a window in a room.
Îíè îòêðûëè âñå îêía. - They opened all the windows.
ß ëþáëþ ìîðå. - I love a sea.
Îí çíàåò âñå ìîðÿ. - He knows all the seas.

Some nouns are always singular. These are nouns that designate substances (oxygen, copper), products (cheese, fish), a block of objects (furniture), some actions (hunting, clearing up), feelings (love, health), some vegetables and berries (potato, carrots).
You will have to know the genders and plurals, because they influence the use of adjectives and pronounces.

savyonok, let us know what nouns and verbs you know and we start sentence formation with them...
You can also tell us genders of nouns you know...

Okay, few queries..

есть - to be..right?

Are these sentences correct?
меня машина есть тюда.
ета меня семья.

Here are few nouns:
года - (year, fem.)
погода - (weather, fem.)
город - (city, mas.)
кино - (movie, neu.)
картошка - (potato, fem.)
кюрица - (chicken, fem.)
ромидор - (tomato, mas.)
малина - (raspberry, fem.)
неба - (sky, fem.)
бремья - (time, fem.)

Some verbs:
чнтает (read)
гобарят (speak)
гюлает (make a trip, stroll)
скажьят (tell)
пюбнт (love)

Please correct the spellings and meanings. I am having a hard time finding the letters on the keyboard

When to use 'ìîÿ' and 'ìåíÿ'?

Like you say 'ìåíÿ çîâóò' but 'ìîÿ ñåìüÿ'...