❤️Think Russian Cases Are Scary? Think Again! 🌸
Hey Russian learners! Today we're tackling everyone's favorite fear - Russian cases. Let's make them less terrifying! 🎯
💫 English speakers: "Russian has SIX cases?!"
💫 Russians: "Wait till you hear about Finnish with its 15 cases!"
❗️ Fun facts:
❤️Latin had 7 cases
❤️Sanskrit had 8
❤️Hungarian has 18
❤️Some Caucasian languages have over 40!
🧷 Think of cases as cheat codes in a game:
🧡Именительный (Nominative): WHO? WHAT? → base form
🧡Родительный (Genitive): NO/OF (whose?) → нет кота (no cat)
🧡Дательный (Dative): TO/FOR (to whom?) → даю коту (giving to cat)
🧡Винительный (Accusative): SEE/WANT (what/whom?) → вижу кота (see cat)
🧡Творительный (Instrumental): WITH/BY (by what?) → горжусь котом (proud of cat)
🧡Предложный (Prepositional): ABOUT/IN (about what?) → думаю о коте (thinking about cat)
📎 Beginner's lifehack:
Remember this story: "Кот (Nom.) ran away from собаки (Gen.),
came up to дому (Dat.),
saw мышку (Acc.),
caught it with хвостом (Instr.)
and forgot about собаке (Prep.)"
📚 Test yourself:
Put "телефон" (phone) in the right case:
"Я забыл ... дома"
(Answer in comments!)
❤️ Bonus fact:
Ancient Russian had one more case - Vocative! We still use its remnants in words like "Боже!" (Oh God!), "Господи!" (Lord!), "Старче!" (Old man!)
@learnrussian 🫶
Hey Russian learners! Today we're tackling everyone's favorite fear - Russian cases. Let's make them less terrifying! 🎯
💫 English speakers: "Russian has SIX cases?!"
💫 Russians: "Wait till you hear about Finnish with its 15 cases!"
❗️ Fun facts:
❤️Latin had 7 cases
❤️Sanskrit had 8
❤️Hungarian has 18
❤️Some Caucasian languages have over 40!
🧷 Think of cases as cheat codes in a game:
🧡Именительный (Nominative): WHO? WHAT? → base form
🧡Родительный (Genitive): NO/OF (whose?) → нет кота (no cat)
🧡Дательный (Dative): TO/FOR (to whom?) → даю коту (giving to cat)
🧡Винительный (Accusative): SEE/WANT (what/whom?) → вижу кота (see cat)
🧡Творительный (Instrumental): WITH/BY (by what?) → горжусь котом (proud of cat)
🧡Предложный (Prepositional): ABOUT/IN (about what?) → думаю о коте (thinking about cat)
📎 Beginner's lifehack:
Remember this story: "Кот (Nom.) ran away from собаки (Gen.),
came up to дому (Dat.),
saw мышку (Acc.),
caught it with хвостом (Instr.)
and forgot about собаке (Prep.)"
📚 Test yourself:
Put "телефон" (phone) in the right case:
"Я забыл ... дома"
(Answer in comments!)
❤️ Bonus fact:
Ancient Russian had one more case - Vocative! We still use its remnants in words like "Боже!" (Oh God!), "Господи!" (Lord!), "Старче!" (Old man!)
@learnrussian 🫶