Darya Gunay - Russian Cases: Conjugate Russian Nouns, Pronouns and Adjectives like a Pro. Rules, Conjugation Tables, Exercises, Keys:

Russian Cases:

Darya Gunay Russian Cases: ConjugateRussian Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives Like a Pro, 2nd edition, 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this bookmay be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanicalmeans, including information storage and retrieval systems, withoutwritten permission from the author, except in the case of areviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in criticalarticles or in a review. Dear Russian language learners, you are aboutto unlock the most important subject in the Russian grammar. Thisbook will help you tackle one of the most challenging topics in theRussian language right away (for beginners) and/or systematize yourknowledge of Russian cases (for not-complete-beginners). Let me start by saying that cases are thebackbone of the Russian sentence structure. Therefore, once youunderstand the conjugation rules, the context and the reason whyeach case is used, all your subsequent efforts to learn Russianwill come with ease.

Everything else you learn will group aroundcases, just like the walls or other elements of a house stayattached to its foundation. Youll be able to conjugate in Russianlike a PRO! Each chapter describes the exact situationswhen each case is used backed by color-coded conjugation tables(tables with endings and examples), which you can always keep handyand return to. Also, each chapter dedicated to a specific case hasa homework section to reinforce and apply your knowledge rightaway. Keys to exercises are provided at the end of the book. This book features a very useful bonus a text in Russian where each noun isunderlined and its gender and case are stated in the brackets. Thisis done to illustrate the use of cases within phrases, so you cango back to the book chapters and review the usage.

I used theoriginal text of Steve Jobs Stanford speech with Russiantranslation side by side, like this: Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out yourown inner voice . (Masc., Dat.Sing.) (Neuter, Gen.Pl.) (Masc., Acc.Sing.). Thanks to this bonus, you will also enrichyour Russian vocabulary by 1,000 words.

Why do we needcases in the first place? Cases explain the relationship, orlogical connection, between words in a phrase. This is done incombination with prepositions - most of the time, but very often -without. The most important thing to take intoconsideration is: in Russian, nouns conjugate in number, gender,and case.

For comparison, in most Indo-European languages, genderand number are still common, however, cases are a thing of thepast. Modern English, for example, has largely lost its inflectedcase system (one can see the remaining of it in personal pronouns,e.g. I-me, she-her) and relies solely on prepositions, such as to,in, from, with, etc. However, many languages of the world,including Russian, still have extensive case systems. Whats more, in Russian, not only nouns, butalso pronouns and adjectives conjugate. In other words, nouns,pronouns, adjectives change their endings according to their case,as well as their gender and number.

There are 6 cases in Russian: Nominative () ( Nom .) Genitive () ( Gen .) Dative () ( Dat .) Accusative () ( Acc .) Instrumental () (Instr.) Prepositional () (Prep.) In this book, we will discover cases in aslightly different order, we will proceed according to theirfrequency in use in the real-life language. We will start withNominative and Accusative (there is often a confusion between them,therefore it is better to learn them one after another). Then wewill pass on to Genitive and Prepositional (they can also be trickybecause both may be used to speak of a direction), and we willfinish with less frequent ones Dative and Instrumental. Topic Cases is closely related to topic, because even in the same case,nouns of different gender and number will have different endings.That is why it is important to understand the concept of gender andsingular / plural form of a noun before studying the Russian casesystem. To have an idea about genders in Russian, Irecommend you read the complementary chapter (next one).

In Russian, allnouns fall into 3 genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

Allnouns are also split into animate (everything alive) and inanimate(not alive). Note: in Russian, not all nouns denoting inanimateobjects are neuter; some are masculine and some are feminine. Unlike other languages, where there are norules or regularities as for gender pattern, in Russian it is quitesimple to know which gender a noun belongs to. The gender of a noun can generally bedetermined by its last letter. Lets see how one can determine thegender of a Russian nouns by paying attention to the lastletter. To masculine gender belong: Nouns ending in a consonant or - (chair), (pencil), (museum), (nightingale), (lantern), (mechanic) To feminine gender belong: Nouns ending in -a, -,- (river), (dog), (song), (nanny), (notebook), (daughter) To neuter gender belong: Nouns ending in -, -,- (window), (field), (time) Note: nouns ending in -, - with a clear meaning of masculine gender, areexceptions: (father), (uncle), , (Valera,Vasya masculine names).

They will belong to the masculinegender, but will conjugate like words of feminine gender (seecase-related endings). Which gender for nouns ending in ? As you have seen from paragraphs above, nounsending in - can belong either to the masculine or femininegender. How do you tell the difference? For thesenouns, its best if you learn the gender by heart or check in adictionary. However, among them, we can distinguish several groupsthat would belong to a particular gender. These belong to the masculinegender: a. names of the months: (February), (June) These belong to the femininegender: a. nouns ending in -, -: (joy), (freshness) b. inanimate nouns ending in -,-, -: (life), (part), (love) c. nouns ending in -, -, -,-: (mouse), (rye), (night) This topic is also addressed in my YouTubeVideo Genders of Russian Nouns ( https://bit.ly/genders-plurals-russian-nouns )

As you know, in Russian, nouns conjugate innumber, gender, and case. nouns ending in -, -, -,-: (mouse), (rye), (night) This topic is also addressed in my YouTubeVideo Genders of Russian Nouns ( https://bit.ly/genders-plurals-russian-nouns ) As you know, in Russian, nouns conjugate innumber, gender, and case.

Plural form of a noun in Russian is not afixed suffix / ending, like in many languages, it depends on boththe gender and the case. Russian nouns in plural usually have thefollowing endings: - or - (for masculine and feminine), - or - (for neuter). In masculine and feminine gender, after ,, , , , , > use , after the rest of the consonants > use - . Note: sometimes, the same noun insingular and plural can have different syllables stressed.Examples: Masculine (sing.) (vocabulary) (pl.) Feminine (sing.) (family)- (pl.) Neuter (sing.) ( letter ) -(pl.) (sing.) (sea) - (pl.) Irregular endings in Plural (=Exeptions) Singular > Plural Masculine nouns: (address) > (coast) > (eye) > (

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