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Which grammatical case is the hardest for studying Russian language?
Nominative case? Genitive case? Dative case? Accusative case? Instrumentative case? Preposition case?
Feb 20, 2011 11:40 AM
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Nominative: Singular you know anyway, plural easy to build
Accusative: most times like Nom/Gen so very easy
Dative: its ok but harder then the two above
Instr: Same as Dative but harder for me because it does not exist in German
Prepos: Easy, not many endings
Genitive: i think its the hardest, the singular is not so hard but
Genitive/Plural is very hard for me to build. There are a lot of rules what to do
at what ending.
This is a good site for the rules:
http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_genitive.php
You will see, Genitive has the most rules^^
February 20, 2011
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I always find that the instrumental and when to use it are hard to translate from English. The dative can be a bit hard as well - but it's easier for German speakers or speakers of other Slavic languages as it's present there. Due to English's lack of an inherent case system except for mild accusative (He said...to him) which we get from German I think the entire concept makes you 'detach' your thinking from English grammar and just accept Russian declension for what it is.
February 20, 2011
Probably the genitive.
February 20, 2011
Probably the genitive.
February 22, 2011
It's China
February 22, 2011
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