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Use of ?? and ??
Gender for some nouns and ???
Answering the question ??? Prepositional case
The concept of case in Russian
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• Gender of some nouns

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• Answering the question ???

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• Answering the question ???

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• Answering the question ???

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• Answering the question ???

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• What is CASE?

Nouns in Russian are marked for CASE. This shows
their function in the sentence.
English marks pronouns in Russian are marked for
CASE....
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• Pronoun Case in English

We take Russian. We is the subject of the
sentence the thing that does the verb.
The Russians photographed us. Us is an object
something that receives the action of the verb.
The pictures were ours. Ours is possessive.
Compare I, me, mine... he, him, his... she, her,
hers... they, them, theirs...
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• What if...
• ...English had case for nouns?
• ...we had as many cases (six!) as Russian?

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• What is CASE?

Nominative Subject of the sentence...
The stor is on 22d Steet.
Genitive of...
The profits of the stors...
Dative towards...
We set of towards the storu.
Accusative direct receiver of the action...
The mob torched the stora.
Instrumental commanding, in charge of...
Whos minding the stor?m?
Prepositional at, in, on ...
They meet at the stori.
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• In fact...
• Old English had five cases.
• King Arthur would have used them.