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Russian Accusative case (Вини́тельный паде́ж)

Russian Accusative case applies to all nouns and it is used for the object of a sentence.

Accusative case can also be used after prepositions "в" (to/in/ into) and "на" (on/to/at) when they indicate action/motion towards an object

In English, Accusative case is used only with pronouns. Her instead of She, Me instead of I, Him instead of He.

Example:

Ма́ша лю́бит соба́ку (Masha loves a dog)

Masha is the subject.

The dog is the object of Masha's love (action).

Accusative case must be applied to the word "dog".

Это соба́ка

Это Ма́ша Ма́ша лю́бит соба́ку

Usage of Russian Accusative case

Accusative case must be applied to the Nominative form of a noun

Let's analyze our example: Ма́ша лю́бит соба́ку.

Ма́ша - name

лю́бит - conjugated verb form "люби́ть" (to love)

соба́ку - "dog" in Accusative form

Using Accusative case on the word "соба́ка"

1. Determine the gender of a noun. Соба́ка is Feminine

2. Remove the last letter of the nominative form of a noun. Remove the last "a" in the word соба́ка (Nominative form)

3. Add the appropriate ending based on the rules below. Соба́ка changes to соба́ку

Rules of Russian Accusative case (Singular form)

The accusative plural form is divided in two groups: animated (alive) and inanimate (not alive).

To make the plural form, the accusative case takes rules from other cases.

If inanimate (not alive) use Nominative plural table
If animate (alive) use Genitive plural table