Russian · Chapter 19 · Lesson 2 · Grammar primer
Personal pronouns
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification - revisited.
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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