A noun is a part of speech that denotes any objectivity, i.e. a noun answers the question “who” or “what”. The noun changes by case. In order not to confuse the cases with each other, there is a strictly defined system of differences between them. This article will help in the future to easily distinguish the genitive from the accusative case.

You will need

• Nouns in genitive and accusative cases.
• The ability to determine cases.
• Knowledge of questions that determine cases.

Instructions

1. There are six cases of nouns in Russian: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental and prepositional. It is not for nothing that these names were given to them. Let us consider two cases of each: genitive and accusative.

2. Genitive case According to definitions in the Russian language, the genitive case means: Belonging to someone or something, say “an arctic fox skin”, “a teacher’s journal”; If there is a relationship between the whole and its part, say “magazine page (RP)”; Displaying the sign of an object in relation to another object, say “survey results (RP)”; The object of influence in the presence of a verb with a negative particle “not”, say, “does not eat meat (R.p.)”; The object of influence in the presence of a verb denoting desire, intention or removal, say, “want happiness (R.p.)”, “avoid responsibility (R.p.)”; If there is a comparison of objects, say, “stronger than oak (R.p.)”; If the noun is the object of measurement, counting, or genitive date, say “a spoonful of sour cream” or “Paris Commune Day.”

3. Accusative caseAccording to definitions in the Russian language, the accusative case means: The transition of action to the entire object, say, “leafing through a magazine,” “driving a car”; Transfer of spatial and temporal relations “walk a mile”, “rest for a month”; IN in rare cases is formed as a connection from an adverb, say, “insultingly for a friend.”

4. In order to never confuse the cases of a noun, it is important to remember that all cases in the Russian language correspond to a multifunctional question; asking the one for a given noun, as a result, we get the corresponding case. The genitive case corresponds to the question “there is no one?” for the animate and “no what?” for inanimate nouns. The accusative case corresponds to the question “I see who?” for the animate and “I see what?” for inanimate nouns. It is very difficult to determine the cases of nouns based on their definitions or endings. It is possible that remembering all the definitions of the genitive and accusative cases is quite difficult. And the endings of nouns quite often coincide. Let’s give an example using an animate noun in plural:I noticed people nearby (I see who? - V.p.) There were no people around (there was no one? - R.p.) As you can see, the word is declined in both cases identically. But, in order to finally verify the correctness case definitions, mentally substitute an inanimate noun for an animate noun. Let's say: Nearby I noticed a pillar (I see who? - V.p.) There were no pillars around (there was no one? - R.p.) From the example it is clear: an inanimate noun in the accusative case does not change in difference from the same noun having genitive.

5. From here we can draw some conclusions: 1. To distinguish the genitive from the accusative, ask the noun a defining question.2. If you find it difficult to determine the case of an animate noun, because... the question “who?” refers to both cases, then substitute an inanimate noun for this noun and ask it a defining question. For the genitive it will be “no what?”, and for the accusative “I see what?”. If the word looks like it is in the nominative case, then the case of your noun is accusative.

In most cases, distinguishing the forms of the genitive and accusative case does not present any difficulties: you just need to pay attention to the case endings. If the endings of both forms coincide, it is necessary to do the following algorithm.

Instructions

1. If you have an inanimate noun in front of you, then you should ask a question about this word. Nouns in the genitive case answer the question “what?” and are in harmony with the word “no”. Nouns in the accusative case answer the question “what?” and are in harmony with the word “I see”. Let's say: I put on (what?) a coat - accusative case, I go without (what?) a coat - genitive case.

2. If you have in front of you an animate masculine noun of the 2nd declension, then you should substitute any word of the 1st declension in its place and look at its ending. Let's say: shot a boar = shot a fox (ending -у - accusative case), got scared of a boar = scared of a fox (ending -ы - genitive case).

3. If you have an animate noun in the plural, then it should be replaced with an inanimate noun in the same form. Let's say: I love people, I love (what?) letters - accusative case. I love the sincerity of people, I love the sincerity of (what?) letters - genitive case.

Useful advice
In the Russian language there are indeclinable nouns, say, “coat”, “coffee”, when in any case the word looks identical. In this case, the case can be determined only by the key issue.

The accusative case is used in combinations of words and sentences with only verbs or with its forms, such as participle or gerund. And also the accusative case answers the questions: “What?” and “Who?” Most often it is used as an expression of the direct object of action: I write a text, play football, build a house and similar phrases. More details about the accusative case and its differences from the genitive case will be written in this article.

This case can mean absolutely different meanings . Accusative:

1. (Time) - the time of an action that has already been completed: walk every morning.
2. (Quantities) - the quantitative side of the verbal action: cost thirty rubles.
3. (Measures) - a measure of time or space: walk one hundred steps.
4. (Object) - the object to which the action is directed: open the door.
5. (Result) - an object - the result of some action: cook soup.

If you remember the accusative case questions “Whom?” or “What?”, you won’t have any difficulty identifying it.

What endings can the accusative case have?

Based on case questions, you can determine the ending of a word.

The accusative case has the following endings:

1. A noun that is singular: dog, door, table, computer, road, car.
2. Accusative case in the plural: dogs, doors, tables, computers, roads, cars.
3. In the singular, the adjective and participle end: round and round, round, round; hard and hard, hard, hard, doggy and doggy, doggy, doggy.

What prepositions are used

This form of the word can be combined with many prepositions, complex and simple. If a word is combined with such prepositions as: with, on, for, in or under (simple), then it determines some meaning. The definition can be by purpose, reason, time, property, state, etc. In combination with a simple preposition, such words can have completely different meanings: picking berries, sailing along the river, playing hide and seek, and so on, that is, have an objective meaning. Also, a word can carry information replenishment.

In the case of complete sentences that contain simple prepositions, phrases have a completely different meaning. For example, a phrase indicates a predicative meaning (reward for participation). And he can also spread a proposal (there is a school not far from home; the long-awaited holidays are coming in the summer.) Together with the prepositions “under” and “for”, inaccurate facts are expressed (she is about twenty, he is about thirty).

Such nouns are also combined with compound prepositions (without paying attention to, after a day).

The difference between the accusative case and the genitive case

In order not to get confused when determining the case, you need to understand that for each option there is an individual question that is important to ask correctly.

If you ask a key question and find a matching option, you can easily determine whether the word is in the genitive or accusative case. A word in the genitive case often names the relationship of an object to something, the relationship between wholes and parts, a description of an object in comparison with another object, an object that is influenced, and the like. These nouns must answer the questions “what” and “whom”. Finding out the case of a noun, focusing only on the ending or meaning, is quite difficult, as there are many nuances and you can make a mistake.

In such variants, sometimes even the endings of words coincide. Most often you can make a mistake if you need to determine the form of an animate noun. In the event that it is quite difficult to understand the form with the question “whom”, then it is necessary to mentally replace the animate word with an inanimate one. Put the question in the accusative form, “I see what?”, and in the genitive form, “There is nothing?”. If the noun, the form of which needs to be determined, turns out to be the same as in the nominative case, then this will mean that it is in the accusative case.

The next way to distinguish the accusative and genitive forms. If you need to determine the case form of an inanimate noun, then pose the necessary question that needs to be answered. For example: I’m carrying (what?) a package, looking (at what?) at the package. In the second version, the word is in the genitive case.

If the noun is animate, has the second declension and is masculine, then it is enough to replace it with any word of the first declension and pay attention to the ending. For example: I see a cat - I see a dog: the ending -у indicates the genitive case; no cat - no dog: ending -i - accusative).

If the noun is animate and is in the plural, then it must be mentally changed to any inanimate that answers the question “what?” (I love horses - I love (what?) clothes - accusative; I love the beauty of horses - I love the beauty of clothes - genitive).

It is important to pay attention to the fact that in the Russian language there are many words that do not decline (coat, metro and others). In all variants they remain unchanged.

There is a possibility that the methods described above will not help. You should always check the case by asking a key question to avoid mistakes.

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Students are often faced with the need to determine case nouns. This needs to be done, say, when you need to check the spelling of an unstressed vowel at the end. Difficulty arises when distinguishing between nominative and accusative case to her, because auxiliary questions for words used in the data case ah, actually identical.

Instructions

1. In order to determine case nouns, it is necessary, before each one, to pose a question to the word. Words related to nominative case y, answer the questions WHO? WHAT? If you asked questions WHO? or WHAT?, then you have a noun used in the accusative form case A.

2. Determine which part of the sentence the noun is. If the word is the subject, i.e. main member of the sentence, then it is used in the nominative form case a.Accusative case om denotes a word that is a minor member in a sentence, a direct object. Let’s say, ask the guys to define case nouns in this sentence. The girl writes a letter. Ask them to pose questions to the words, determine which part of the sentence they are. They are obliged to come to a further conclusion. The word “girl” answers the question WHO?, is the subject, which means it is used in the nominative case e. And the word “letter” is a minor member of the sentence, a direct object. It answers the question WHAT? and, therefore, is used in the accusative case e.

3. Draw the attention of schoolchildren to the fact that a noun is used with or without a preposition. Words in the nominative case They are not used without prepositions. In the accusative - they have prepositions ON, FOR, THROUGH, IN, etc.

4. It is also worthwhile when determining case and compare endings in words. So, nouns of the first declension will have endings A, Z, if they are in the nominative form case A. Accordingly, in the accusative case e - U, Yu. Let's say, in the first declension noun “wall” the ending is A. It is used in the nominative case e. The word “wall” has the ending U. This means it has an accusative case .

5. Case indicates the role of a word in a sentence. It is allowed to use the assistant phrase WHO DOES WHAT to distinguish between nominative and accusative case to her.

“Ivan Gave Birth to a Girl and Ordered to Drag the Diaper” - the first letters of this literary nonsense orderly read out the list of cases. There are six types of cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional. All of them speak about the temporary state of one or another noun, which can change in case form. It is not difficult to determine the type of case of a noun; you just need to figure out which question is answered by all of the cases.

Instructions

1. Case nominative– initial, determining the real sound of the word. Answers the questions “who?” or “what?” If the noun is inanimate, say: window, house, book, bus, then it answers the question “what?”, and if it is animate, for example, girl, elephant, mother, Rita, then, accordingly, it answers the question “who?” . This division according to the liveliness of the subject will concern all cases, and consequently each case has two questions. Example 1. Man (who?) is an animate noun in the nominative case, machine (what?) is an inanimate noun in the nominative case.

2. Genitive case, from the word “to give birth to whom?” or “what?” No matter how comical it may sound, this is exactly how the question should be asked. A number of questions in cases coincide, and therefore some words will sound identical, the main thing is to put the case question correctly. Example 2. A person (whom?) is an animate noun in the genitive case, a car (what?) is an inanimate noun in the genitive case.

3. The dative case is determined by the phrase “give to whom?” or “what?” Example 3. To a person (to whom?) is an animate noun in the dative case, to a car (to what?) is an inanimate noun in the dative case.

4. The accusative case answers the question: “whom to blame?” or “what?” In the above example, an inanimate noun coincides, and therefore the case is determined logically, according to meaning. Example 4. A person (who?) is an animate noun in the accusative case, a car (what?) is an inanimate noun in the accusative case. But if it makes sense: I bought a car (genitive case), but crashed the car (accusative case).

5. The instrumental case sounds like: “to create by whom?” or “what?” Example 5. By a person (by whom?) is an animate noun in the instrumental case, by a machine (by what?) is an inanimate noun in the instrumental case.

6. The prepositional case is exceptional, posing a question that is not consonant with its name: “to talk about whom?” or “about what?” It is easy to determine a word in this case, because a noun in this case invariably has a preposition. Example 6. About a person (about whom?) is an animate noun in the prepositional case, about a car (about what?) is an inanimate noun in the prepositional case.

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Useful advice
Even if a case question does not match the meaning in a given sentence, it should still be asked to determine the case of a noun.

Tip 3: How to distinguish the genitive case of a noun from the accusative case

Cases of the Russian language is a category of a word that shows its syntactic role in a sentence. Schoolchildren memorize the names of cases and their signs, that is, questions, but sometimes difficulties arise. For example, when it is necessary to distinguish the genitive case from the accusative case.

You will need

• Knowledge of Russian language by school curriculum, nouns in the accusative and genitive cases,

Instructions

1. In the Russian language there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional. To determine the case of a noun, auxiliary words and questions are used. The spelling of the ending of the word depends on this. The genitive (no: whom? what?) and accusative (blame: whom? what?) cases are often confused, because questions to animate objects are asked identically: “who?”

2. Ask a question. If in doubt, ask the noun a qualifying question: “no what?” (for genitive) and “I see what?” (for accusative). If a word takes the form of the nominative case, it means that in this case it is accusative. Let's say: a small fish (accusative case: I see what? a fish, it is impossible to say: there is nothing? a fish).

3. If you need to determine the case in order to arrange the endings, replace the noun with the word “cat” or any other word, but certainly of the first declension. Depending on the ending, determine the case. Let's say: pride for the teacher is the accusative case, since, substituting the word “cat” in place of the noun, we get: glory for the cat. The ending "u" indicates the accusative case. The ending “and” is in the genitive.

4. Analyze the connection of words in a phrase. The genitive case, as usual, denotes the relationship between a part and the whole (a glass of milk), belonging to something (a sister’s jacket), it is used when comparing (more beautiful than a queen). The accusative is used to convey spatial-temporal relations (work for a week), the transition from an action to an object (drive a car).

5. Use the same methods for indeclinable nouns. Let's say: put on a coat (put on a cat - accusative case), do without coffee (do without a cat - genitive).

Pay attention!
The accusative case denotes the complete coverage of the object by the action, a certain number (drink milk), and the genitive case denotes the extension of the action to part of the object (drink milk).

Useful advice
An inanimate noun in the accusative case does not change to differ from the same noun in the genitive case: I saw a house (accusative), there were no houses in the area (genitive)

Unlike the Finnish and Hungarian languages, in which there are one and a half to two dozen cases, in Russian grammar there are six of them. The endings of words in different cases may coincide; therefore, to determine the case, you need to ask the correct question for the word being checked.

Instructions

1. To determine the case of a noun, carefully read the phrase in which it is included. Find the word that the noun you are checking refers to - that's why words you will ask a question. Let's say you're given the phrase “I love dogs,” and you need to determine the case of the noun “dogs.” The word “dogs” in this sentence is subordinate to the word “love”. Consequently, you will ask the case question in the following way: “I love whom?”

2. Each of the six cases has its own special question. So, nouns in the nominative case answer the question “who?” or “what?” The auxiliary word “is” can be added to this case. Let's say there is (who?) a dog. The question of the genitive case is “who?” or “what?” The auxiliary word “no” can be added to the noun in this case. The dative case answers the question “to whom?/what?” and harmonizes with the auxiliary word “give”. The question of the accusative case is “who?” or “what?”, and its auxiliary word is “blame.” Nouns in the instrumental case answer the question “by whom?/what?” and are in harmony with the words “created” and “pleased.” Finally, prepositional characterized by the following questions: “about whom?/about what?”, “in whom?/in what?” One of the auxiliary words of this case is the word “I think”.

3. In order to determine the case of an adjective, you first need to find the noun or pronoun to which it refers. Having determined the case of this basic word, you will also know the case of the adjective, because adjectives invariably agree in gender, number and case with the nouns (pronouns) on which they depend. For example, in the sentence “Kolya ate a large pear,” the noun “pear” is used in the accusative case, and therefore the case of the adjective “large” related to it is also accusative.

A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person or object and answers the questions “who?” So what?". Nouns change according to cases, of which there are six in the Russian language. To prevent cases from being confused with each other, there is a strict system of rules and differences between them. In order to be able to correctly and quickly determine the accusative case, you need to know its questions and what it is used for.

Instructions

1. In order to never make a mistake with the case of a noun, remember that each of them has unique questions specific to it, by asking which you will receive the corresponding case of the noun. Accusative case questions are the question “I see who?” for the animate and “I see what?” for inanimate nouns.

2. In addition, learn the definitions of the accusative case of the Russian language, or rather, the cases when it is used. It turns out that the accusative case denotes the transfer of temporal and spatial relations (rest for a week, walk a kilometer); transition of the action entirely to the object (driving a car, leafing through a book). It is very rare that the accusative case is formed as a dependence on an adverb (annoyed for a friend).

3. However, even according to the rules or endings, it is sometimes very difficult to determine the case, so always use special questions. In terms of its questions, the accusative case partly coincides with the genitive and nominative. In order not to confuse them, do the following: if you have an animate noun in front of you, and it answers the question “who?”, the one that coincides with the genitive case, substitute an inanimate noun in its place and ask a question to it. If the word answers the question “I see what?”, then you have the accusative case.

4. Remember also that in the Russian language there are some nouns that look identical in all cases: metro, cinema, coat, cafe, etc. To determine their case, ask a question to keyword. For example, in the sentence “Yesterday they bought me an expensive coat,” the word “coat” is in the accusative case, because in response to the question “I see what?” You are allowed to answer “beautiful coat.” In addition, replace the word “coat” here with a variable, say, “decoration”. Then belonging to the accusative case immediately becomes more clear.

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Useful advice
When determining the case of any noun, invariably apply all the rules and methods that you know, then it will be much easier for you to verify that a word belongs to one or another case.

The nominative case is the original dictionary form of nouns, contrasted with every other form of indirect case: genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional. A word in the nominative case is never used with a preposition and in a sentence traditionally performs the syntactic function of the subject or the nominal part of a compound predicate.

Instructions

1. Define nominative case noun on grammatical questions “who?” or “what?” For example, in the sentence “His mother was kindness itself,” the word “mother” answers the question “who?”, and the word “kindness”? to the question “what?”

2. For nominative case and the main ones are the subjective and attributive meanings. In the first case, this form denotes the figure performing the action, or the object towards which it is directed. Compare: “A mother loves her son.” The word “mother” denotes a doer. “The son is loved by the mother.” The word “son” denotes an animate object, the one on which the action is directed.

3. Determine the subjective meaning of the nominative form case and by the syntactic role of the subject in a two-part sentence (“The son is a student, but at the same time he works”) or the subject in a one-part noun (“Whisper, cowardly breathing, trills of a nightingale...”).

4. Determinative meaning of the nominative form case and is expressed in a compound nominal predicate or in the syntactic structure of the application. “The new building is a factory.” The word "factory" is nominal part a predicate that answers the question “what is the new building?” “The female doctor invited me into her office.” The word "doctor" answering the question "who?" is ? is an application that performs the syntactic function of defining. Note that the nominative case, used in a definitive meaning, gives a different name to an object by property, quality, sign, and adverbial meanings are not characteristic of it.

5. Additional meanings of the nominative case and the noun are: - an evaluative value expressed in the nominal part of the predicate (“He was a good-natured person”); - an expression of a temporary sign related to the past (“At that time there was still a groom, her husband”); - the meaning of an informatively filling form used both with a proper name (“They called her Olya”) and a common noun (“He is listed as a watchman”). More often than not, nominative case used in this meaning with geographical names (“Then the city began to be called Petrograd”).

Pay attention!
In addition to nouns, the case category has inflected parts of speech: adjective, numeral, participle and pronoun. Determine the nominative case of adjectives and participles using the questions “which one?” which? which? what?”, given from the noun being defined, “how many?” ? for cardinal numbers, “which one?” ? for ordinal ones. Pronouns, depending on their rank, can answer the questions “who?” in the nominative case. What?" (I, that), “which one? whose?" (certain, own), “how much?” (so many).

The genitive case answers the questions of whom? what?

and the accusative case answers the questions of whom? What?

Confusion arises because animate nouns answer the same question in both cases: whom?.

In order to correctly determine the case or ending in a case, we learn to distinguish with the help of auxiliary words.

For genitive case This there is no one, what? no son, no home, no family, no Snow Maiden,

For accusative case This I see who, what? I see my son, house, family, Snow Maiden.

If you substitute these helper words when declension of a word or determining case, then everything will be easy and correct.

Hello. Please tell me how to write correctly!

In our case, consumer is an inanimate noun.

Option 1: The transformer substation has consumers.

Option 2: The transformer substation has voltage consumers.

Option 3: The transformer substation has consumers.

Option 4: The transformer substation has voltage consumers.

Which of the options are correct?

Compare with the proposal:

The hard drive has seals.

Everything seems to be clear here.

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Probably, here you need to be able to distinguish between the action or the form of what is happening. Most people confuse the question Who?, which is in both the nominative and accusative cases.

So here is the parent question Who? different from the accusative Who? an auxiliary word that is recommended to be remembered.

For the genitive case there is the word no, and for the accusative case there is the word that. By asking a question with an auxiliary word, we also get a noun with a different ending. Example - no sister, hamster, rye - genitive case. I see my sister, a hamster, rye - accusative case.

Here is a table with auxiliary words to each case, which make it easier to determine the case.

In order to determine whether the case is accusative or genitive, you first need to determine whether the noun is animate. The fact is that animate nouns, both in the genitive and accusative cases, answer the question of whom?. If the noun is inanimate, it answers in the genitive case to what?, but in the accusative case to what? - a question that coincides with a question word in the nominative case.

The noun needs to be checked to see whether it combines in the genitive case with the word no. For example, in the question No what? The accusative case is checked by compatibility with verbs in the first person form, singular, present tense, for example, I know, I see. I see what? - a chair or I see someone? - student. As we see, the forms of the accusative and genitive cases are the same for animate and masculine nouns of the second declension.

Instead of an animate masculine noun in the second declension, substitute any word of the first declension. For example, No one? - student, Who do I see? - student. In the first declension for the genitive case y, and for the accusative case y.

We replace the plural noun with an inanimate noun of the same form, after which we determine the case in the same way. For example - I know (who?) people should be replaced with I know (what?) names. It turns out that names are plural nouns in the accusative case.

If we take the example with the genitive case, we replace I know the address of (who?) friends with I know the addresses of (what?) companies. Firm is in the genitive plural.

Try to determine the case of nouns that are not declined (coffee, coat, etc.) using key questions. If it is difficult to determine from the questions, use the option with replacement by any noun (declension).

I was once confused with this too. So, the genitive case answers the question of who and what, and the accusative case answers who, what. The simplest thing that can be done in this case to distinguish the case is to substitute the word I see or not. If the word no fits, then the case is genitive; if I see, then the case is accusative.

The problem with determining case occurs only for animate nouns, because inanimate nouns answer different questions in the genitive and accusative case and therefore have different endings. In the genitive case, this is a question of what? and what about the accusative? Therefore, the easiest way to deal with animate nouns is to kill them, excuse the expression. It will look something like this: I brought home a rabbit, the question is Who?, the noun is animate, so we kill it this way: I brought home the carcass of a rabbit, the question turns out to be What?, and therefore the case is accusative. Same with the option I don’t have a rabbit. Again the question of Who? and incomprehensible case We kill, we get I don’t have a rabbit skin and the question turns out to be What?, and therefore the genitive case. This is how we were taught at school, a little brutally, but it was easy to remember.

To distinguish the accusative case from the parent case, you need to ask the question:

For the accusative case - Should you blame someone (or what) for your troubles? answer: yourself, your laziness, TV.

For the genitive case, ask the question: Who is guilty? - lawyer. The culprit doesn't have what? - protection.

The genitive answers the questions: Who?, What?, for example: I don’t have (Who? What?) brother, mug. The accusative answers the questions: Who?, What? Example: I received (Who? What?) brother, a mug.

It can be difficult distinguish genitive from accusative in a sentence. The fact is that for animate nouns, both of these cases answer the question whom?. You can replace an animate object with an inanimate one in such a sentence and see what kind of question you can ask: if what?, then this is the genitive case if What? accusative.

For example:

• I see an elephant (who?). Let's replace the word elephant on table. I see a table (what?). Therefore, there is an accusative case here.
• There is not a single elephant (who?). By analogy we get: There is not a single table (what?). This means that in the above sentence the genitive case is used.

• Declension by case refers to the section of the Russian language. The genitive case answers the questions -NO- who? what?, and the accusative case - I SEE - who? What?. That is, when determining cases, it is enough to substitute the corresponding words and check whether the word being tested corresponds to the corresponding case. Then you won’t have to remember a bunch of all the rules.

  Schoolchildren usually confuse and poorly distinguish between the accusative and genitive cases. I myself remembered that I had difficulty at school until they suggested to me an effective way, which is to substitute the word I see. I see (who? what?) a window, a street, a mother, a magazine.

  And the genitive case has questions of whom? what? To determine the genitive case, you can also substitute the word No. There is no (who? what?) window, street, magazine.

At school, several classes are always devoted to the accusative case, as it causes the most serious difficulties for students. It’s no wonder that adults often make mistakes when using the accusative case. So it’s worth looking into this topic.

The accusative case is one of the 6 main ones and, as a rule, is used in the “transitive verb + noun” pair. What does this mean? This means that a noun in the accusative case experiences some kind of action directed at it by the noun or pronoun that performs the function of the subject. A simple and understandable example is “I love mom (dad, cat, sausages, porridge, music, flowers, etc.)” The subject, that is actor, in this case is the pronoun “I”. The direct object, expressed by a noun following a verb, experiences the action of the subject - love. And it will always be used in the accusative case.

This is quite easy to check: firstly, you can remember the case questions,

the accusative answers to “who? what?”, secondly, follow the endings, substituting nouns of the 1st declension instead of the complement in ambiguous cases - mom, dad, fox, etc. They will all end in "y".

The accusative case in the Russian language is often a source of errors, especially when it is replaced by the genitive, dative, nominative, and even very often verbs require the use of a nominal direct object, but mistakes still slip through, so studying the topic on how to correctly use the accusative case should be combined with the topic on the construction of phrases and the features of the “verb + noun” pair.

There is also a possibility of encountering the accusative case in sentences that denote temporary concepts, for example, “work all week,” “get up every hour,” “rewrite notes all night.” In the latter case, both nouns are used in the accusative case, so care and caution should be exercised when parsing such sentences.

If the form of a noun is very similar to but the noun is not the subject, you can do a grammatical to make sure that the noun is used in the accusative case.

If doubts arise about the correctness after

some verb, you should look in the dictionary and check which case you need to use. For example, verbs such as “slow down”, “inspire”, “report”, “send”, “put on” and so on.

There are also some differences in the declension of animate and inanimate nouns. For example, “wait for a letter” and “wait for father.” In the first case the case will be genitive, and in the second case it will be accusative. This can be easily verified by asking questions from the verb to the object. So substituting nouns belonging to the first declension is still not a panacea. There are several ways to check yourself.

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