Russian grammar: cases
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Russian has six different cases.
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* nominative: Именительный падеж
- Subject
* genitive: Родительный падеж
- possession
- object of negative verbs
- numbers, quantity
* dative: Дательный падеж
- indirect object
- impersonal expressions
* accusative: Винительный падеж
- direct object
* instrumental: Творительный падеж
- "being" verbs
- with, by, as
* prepositional: Предложный падеж
- used only with prepositions (also called "Locative" case
Having six cases makes a language ever so much fun to learn, because you have to know which preposition takes which case in which situation. And of course each case gives the noun and adjectives it modifies a different ending. And it is different in singular and plural, obviously. Oh, did I forget to mention that the three genders also have different endings in each case?
A brief overview of the use of these cases can also be found here: [1]
