Russian · Chapter 1 · Lesson 5 · Grammar primer
Personal pronouns
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification.
The short version
Four forms of I, not six
Ya becomes menya, mne and mnoy across the six cases, because accusative and genitive share a form and so do dative and prepositional. Every other pronoun overlaps the same way. Learn each form inside a phrase you use daily, such as u menya yest and day mne, and the chart takes a week rather than a term.
U menya yest brat. Day mne knigu.
He, she and they grow an n after prepositions
Yego is him, but after a preposition it becomes nego: u nego, dlya nego, bez nego. The same n- appears on she and they, and never on I, you or we. The possessive yego, meaning his, never takes it either.
Ya znayu yego. U nego net mashiny.
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