In the Russian language there are unusual words (mainly borrowed from other languages) that are not only difficult to pronounce, but also almost impossible to immediately determine their gender and number. One of these obscure words is the communiqué.
The communique is ...
How not to get into a mess in a conversation about politics?
Do you know what a communique is, or maybe who it is? Everything is simpler than it seems.
The communiqué is just a message that is official in nature.
Origin
Noun com-mu-ni-ke borrowed from french. It came from the word communiquer, meaning "communicate, transmit." From this we can conclude that the "communiqué" is a relative of the words "communication", "sociability".
Morphological characteristics
A communique is an inanimate, indestructible noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | *** was announced on Monday on the central channel of television. | *** were voiced on Monday on the central television channel. |
| Genitive | There is no *** among the archival documents. | There are no *** among the archival documents. |
| Dative | Anatoly Alexandrovich prepared a colorful introduction to ***. | Anatoly Alexandrovich prepared a colorful introduction to the evening ***. |
| Accusative | I did not see *** either in the closet or on his desk. | I did not see *** neither in the closet nor on his desk. |
| Instrumental | The people are scared ***, you need to correct the situation. | The people are frightened by these ***, it is necessary to correct the situation. |
| Prepositional | Alexander Sergeyevich Litvinov did not hear anything about ***, which had to be voiced during the evening news release. | Alexander Sergeyevich Litvinov did not hear anything about any *** that needed to be announced during the evening news release. |
Communique: gender
At first glance, the genus of the noun communique can not be determined. Still try to figure it out.
Communiqué is a noun of the middle gender, of the 0th declension.
For instance:
- The government will have to answer for this rash ***.
- *** made a real sensation among the few listeners.
- Maxim ordered the assistant to prepare a competent, informative ***.
- The course participants did not understand a single word from the last ***.
- At a seminar on political science, students learned to compile *** according to all the rules.
- In writing different *** for official events I do not find anything interesting.
- Going through the archive, the clerk found the drafts of the old *** and decided to leave them as examples of the ideal style.
Combination with adjectives
What could be the communique?
- Official: The speaker made an official *** on the eve of the election to the city council of veterans.
- Literate: Note: *** must be written in competent language.
- Brief: Following the results of the year, the company president addressed the staff with a brief ***.
- Illiterate: Newbie made up illiterate ***.
- Incomprehensible: The text *** was incomprehensible to the ordinary listener.
- Challenging: *** turned out to be too complicated and tricky.
- Outdated: Events developed so rapidly that by morning *** became obsolete.
- Timely: Requires a modern ***, written in a living language that everyone understands: a businessman, a politician, an artist, a peasant, a worker, a miner, a teacher, and a doctor.
- Boring: The keynote speaker read such a boring *** that all those present at the meeting almost fell asleep.
- Encouraging: The President made a reassuring ***, in the minds of all citizens hope was hoped for an improvement in the political and economic situation in the country.
Verb compatibility
With what verbs can the word "communique" be used?
- It turned out: *** it turned out to be worthless.
- Lie down: *** already lay on the speaker’s table.
- Sound: *** sounded somehow ominous and did not bode well.
- To be: *** was timely.
- Become: *** became the only source of information for frightened people living in the unknown.