How to determine the accusative case

A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person or subject and answers the questions "who?" So what?". Nouns vary in cases, of which there are six in Russian. So that the cases are not 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, it is necessary to know its questions, and what it is used for.

Instruction manual

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

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In addition, learn the definitions of the accusative case of the Russian language, or rather, the cases when it is used. So, the accusative case means the transfer of temporal and spatial relationships (rest a week, walk a kilometer); the transition of the action completely to the subject (drive a car, leaf through a book). Very rarely, the accusative case is formed as a function of the dialect (offensive for a friend).

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However, even by the rules or endings, it is sometimes very difficult to determine the case, so always use special questions. In its questions, the accusative case partially coincides with the genitive and nominative. In order not to confuse them, do the following: if you have an animated noun in front of you, and it answers the question “who?”, Which coincides with the inanimate noun and ask a question to it. If the word answers the question “see what?”, Then you have an accusative case.

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Remember also that in Russian there are some nouns that look the same in all cases: metro, cinema, coat, cafe, etc. To determine their case, ask a keyword question. For example, in the sentence “Yesterday I bought an expensive coat”, the word “coat” appears in the accusative case, because the question “see what?” You can answer "beautiful coat." In addition, replace the word “coat” here with a variable, for example, “decoration”. Then belonging to the accusative case immediately becomes more obvious.

Useful advice

When determining the case of any noun, always apply all the rules and methods that you know, then it will be much easier for you to make sure that the word belongs to one or another case.