The noun in Russian has the grammatical category of a case presented in six forms. All cases perform separate functions in the offer and are characterized by the special terminations. However some forms, for example, a genitive and accusative case, it is difficult to distinguish on external signs.
Instruction
1. Define, the analyzed noun is animated or inanimate. The animated noun in a genitive and accusative case answers the key question "whom?". The inanimate noun answers in a genitive case the question "what?", and in accusative – the question "what?" coinciding with an interrogative word to the Nominative case.
2. Check a noun for compatibility with certain words. In a genitive case the noun is combined with the word "no". For example, "There is no what?" – "Chair" or "There is no whom?" – "Pupil". The accusative case can be checked compatibility with verbs in the first person, singular and the present: "I see", "I know", "I love". For example, "I see that?" – "Chair" or "I see whom?" – "Pupil". On this example it is possible to notice that forms of an accusative and genitive case at the animated nouns of a masculine gender of the II inducement coincide.
3. Substitute instead of the animated noun of a masculine gender of the II inducement, any word I of inducement. For example, "There is no whom?" – "Schoolgirls" or "I see whom?" – "Schoolgirl". At the I inducement it is easy to define the termination - y for genitive and - at for an accusative case.
4. Replace a noun in plural with an inanimate noun in the same form and determine a case by analogy. For example, "I know (whom?)" replace people on "I know (that?) names". "Names" are an accusative case of plural. An example with a genitive case: "I know the addresses (whom?)" replace friends on "I know the addresses (what?) institutions". "Institutions" – a genitive case of plural.
5. Determine a case form of indeclinable nouns, for example, by "coffee", "souffle", "coat", by key questions. If you find it difficult to determine a case of these words by questions, change them for any noun of the I inducement.