Where to put stress in the word "договор"?

Question

I was wondering about correct pronunciation of this word in singular and plural forms. Should I pronounce it as dogovOr or dOgovor? Where to put stress in the plural form if I want to say "Please sign these contracts."

Answer 1

 

Normally the stress is on вор and stays there in all cases. Then, the nominative and accusative plural is договоры. There is, however, a colloquial variant with the stress on the first syllable. This version has a nominative and accusative plural договора, and this version is stressed on the final syllables in all cases.

 

You can find it here: http://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80

Answer 2

Earlier дОговор и договорА were wrong. Rules had said: договОр and договОры. About a year ago government signed new dictionaries where we have both cases as right (and they have more disputable things in this dictionaries). But don't use дОговор и договорА cause it sounds like from uneducated sellers in the poor markets speaks....

Comments

"About a year ago government signed new dictionaries" - it isn't right. This dictionaries was always and до́говор was there long ago. But it's marked as informal variant. About a year ago journalists made sensation and hysterics. They wrote falsehood about imaginary dictionaries because they didn't understand what is new law. I think they never opened dictionaries before therefore they discovered many words and rules =) So, догово́р is right and до́говор is informal only (but I feel that is wrong rather). And it happened before government signed that law (not dictionaries).