1. The Accusative Case

3. Prepositional

4. Accusative

5. Genitive

6. Dative

7. Instrumental

9. Prepositional

11. And the prepositional expressed location of one of the nouns or the action of the sentence..

16. Ivan the Terrible murdered his son in the Kremlin.

17. Ivan the Terrible murdered his son in the Kremlin.

19. To review the other cases we've seen so far...

23. And how is the accusative formed?

25. It's formed pretty easily for the nouns you know so far, that are hard stem and singular.

27. Masculine: don't change anything!

28. Feminine: change а to у

29. Neuter: don't change anything!

31. Examples

32. Я чит а ю журн а л,

33. а ты чит а ешь газ е т у.

34. Я чит а ю журн а л, A journal is what I am reading. It is the direct object of my reading. It is in the accusative case. Журнал is masculine, and therefore the ending does not change from the nominative.

35. а ты чит а ешь газ е т у. A gazette (newspaper) is what you are reading. It is the direct object of your reading. It is in the accusative case. The ending has changed from -а of the nominative case to the -у of the accusative.

36. Girl = д е в у шка

37. Что э то?

38. Э то д е в у шка.

39. Л ю бит* = Loves* *(third person [he, she, it], non-past [present!])

40. Он л ю бит д е в у шк у .

42. The ending changes from -а to -у .

43. Кон е ц* *The End