Russian Β· Chapter 10 Β· Lesson 2 Β· Grammar primer
Cases
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification - revisited.
The short version
The endings replace the articles you do not have
Russian has no word for the or a, because the case ending already says what job the noun is doing. English spends word order, articles and little words like to and of on the same task. Neither language is doing more work; they are spending the same budget differently.
Skazhi mne.
Six cases is fewer endings than it sounds
The tables look punishing and the reality is not: the endings overlap heavily, the genitive and accusative are identical for a large class of nouns, and the plurals collapse further still. The honest count a beginner needs is a couple of dozen forms, not thirty-six, and they repeat in patterns.
Ya znayu.
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Lesson 2 of 18 in this chapter