Russian Nominative case (Имени́тельный паде́ж)

Russian Nominative case applies to the subject of a sentence.

All the words in any dictionary appear in Nominative case.

Nominative case is always used in the sentences with pronouns such as: "Э́то" (This is) and "Во́т" (Here is)

Example: 

Э́то Ма́ша (This is Masha)

Masha is the subject of the sentence. No changes.

The ending of the Nominative form of a noun must be changed only for plural.

Э́то Ма́ша

Forming Plurals in Russian (Nominative)

To make plural in English, you have to add "s" at the end of a noun.

Unlike English, in Russian you have to change the ending of a noun.

Let's make the plural form of a noun.

Example:

собáка (dog)

To make the plural form of a noun:

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

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

3. Add the appropriate ending based on the rules below. According to the rules below it must be "собакы"

 Using Russian spelling rules, the previous consonant of the word is "к", then Собáка changes to собáки

Russian Personal Pronouns (Nominative)

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