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By the way, in some words in Russian, the sign "o" sounds like "a" while spelling the word verbally. Unfortunately I'm not a native speaker, so I can't tell you exactly where or when.

Да, я соглашаюсь. 3nodding

FUN WITH NOUN DECLENSIONS.

You asked for it, you get it.

Every noun in the Russian language changes its ending depending on its use in the sentence. This frees up the word order so that it can be used to stress certain elements in a sentence, as you will see.

In Russian, there are six declension cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental and locative/prepositional.

The NOMINATIVE case announces the SUBJECT of the sentence. In the sentence "The dog wants my dinner," the subject is "the dog." English has a nominative case in its pronouns; saying "I" instead of "me" or "my," and so on. Try generalizing this to all nouns; t his takes some getting used to, but it's great fun.

The ACCUSATIVE shows the DIRECT OBJECT of the sentence. In the same sentence as last time, "the dog wants my dinner," "my dinner" is the direct object. It shows what is being directly affected by the verb.

The DATIVE shows the INDIRECT OBJECT of the sentence. In the sentence "He gave me a present" or "He gave a present to me," "me" or "to me" is the indirect object, since the "present" is what's being directly affected and you are what it's being affected TO. The word "to" is usually used to translate the dative out of Russian, but there are a lot of exceptions to that.

The GENITIVE shows the POSSESSOR. When you say "The dog's bone," "dog" is the possessor. English has a genitive case: the apostrophe-S ending that you see often. The genitive is also used to mean OF.

The INSTRUMENTAL shows the MEANS BY WHICH AN ACTION HAPPENS. In saying "I knocked his teeth out with a hammer," the hammer is being used as the instrumental would be were this sentence in Russian. It is translated mostly as BY and WITH.

The LOCATIVE/PREPOSITIONAL shows WHERE AN ACTION IS TAKING PLACE. Saying "I was in the torture chamber," the torture chamber would be in the locative case. Saying "I was at the park," the park would be in the locative. It is often called the prepositional because this case can NEVER be used without a preposition. It is also used when saying "Speaking of..."

Naturally, all of the case endings change depending on the gender and some other factors. I have taught all of your vocabulary words so far in the nominative, which I will keep doing.

Here is a mostly complete list of how the declension system works (first in the singular, then in the plural…). All the "oblique cases" (all but the nominative singular) are stressed like the nominative singular case.

MASCULINE -

п б д т в ф з с л м н р г к х

N - взгляд / взгляды
A - взгляд / взгляды
G - взгляда / взглядов
D - взгляду / взглядам
I - взглядом / взглядами
L - взгляде / взглядах

ай ой ей уй

N - чай / чаи
A - чай / чаи
G - чая / чаев
D - чаю / чаям
I - чаем / чаями
L - чае / чаях

ж ш щ

N - обощ / обощи
A - обощ / обощи
G - обоща / обощей
D - обощу / обощам
I - обощем / обощами
L - обоще / обощах

ий

N - гений / гении
A - гений / гении
G - гения / гениев
D - гению / гениям
I - гением гениями
L - гении / гениях

ь

N - автомобиль / автомобили
A - автомобиль / автомобили
G - автомобиля / автомобилей
D - автомобилю / автомобилям
I - автомобилем / автомобилями
L - автомобиле / автомобилях

FEMININE -

а

N - выдра / выдры
A - выдру / выдры
G - выдры / выдр
D - выдре / выдрам
I - выдрой / выдрами
L - выдре / выдрах

consonant + я

N - спальня / спальни
A - спальню / спальни
G - спальни / спальнь
D - спальне / спальням
I - спальней /спальнями
L - спальне / спальнях

ия

N - концепция / концепции
A - концепцию / концепции
G - концепции / концепций
D - концепции / концепциям
I - концепцией / концепциями
L - концепции / концепциях

ея уя

N - аллея / аллеи
A - аллею / аллеи
G - аллеи / аллей
D - аллее / аллеям
I - аллей / аллеями
L - аллее / аллеях

ь

N - жизнь / жизни
A - жизнь / жизни
G - жизни / жизней
D - жизни / жизням
I - жизнью / жизнями
L - жизни / жизнях

NEUTER -

о

N - пиво / пива
A - пиво / пива
G - пива / пив
D - пиву / пивам
I - пивом / пивами
L -пиве / пивах

ще це

N - солнце / солнца
A - солнце / солнца
G - солнца / солнц
D - солнцу / солнцам
I - солнцем / солнцами
L - солнце / солнцах

ие

N - внимание / внимания
A - внимание / внимания
G - внимания / вниманий
D - вниманию / вниманиям
I - вниманием / вниманиями
L - внимании / вниманиях

ье ьё

N - варенье / варенья
A - варенье / варенья
G - варенья / варений
D - варенью / вареньям
I - вареньем / вареньями
L - варенье / вареньях

consonant + е

N - море / моря
A - море / моря
G - моря / морей
D - морю / морям
I - морем / морями
L - море / морях

мя

N - время / времена
A - время / времена
G - времени / времён
D - времени / временам
I - временем / временами
L - времени / временах

Practice declining the nouns that I gave you.

Note: When declining animate nouns (any noun that is alive, be it a person or an animal), the Accusative case takes the same form as the Genitive.

Next up...verbs! Then I'll go into prepositions, pronouns, verbs of motion and all sorts of stuff.

I always use ncnever.free.fr/translit.

Take its transliterations with a grain of salt, but it's good for typing Russian easily and quickly.

bad transliterations on some of the words I shall fix them (some the rest all good)

I would say "Дейв Ярвуд," myself. ninja

Okay, your noun declesion examples make no sense to me. I can't tell what is the genetive or nominative or whatever for anything, it just seems to be a big blob of russian with no explanation fro anyof it. Could you make those examples a little clearer?