Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental and Prepositional:
Like German and some other languages, Russian has something called cases, basically they’re changes that occur to nouns and their endings, to show what role they’re playing in a sentence. There are 6 cases in Russian: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, and prepositional.
Before going into details let’s review them very quickly:
Russian Cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental and Prepositional)
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The nominative case answers the questions "who?/what?". The Russian Nominative is the basic form found in dictionaries for nouns.
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The accusative case designates the object of an action. (I speak Russian)
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The genitive case refers to things belonging to other people. Just like when you use (of) or (the possessive ‘s)
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The dative case refers to things given or addressed to a person (object). (give it to me…)
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The instrumental case is used to refer to an instrument that helps to make something.
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The prepositional case is used after the prepositions “о” (about), “в” (in), “на” (at) to refer to a place
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