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I'm trying to get the parallel preposition for "of" in Russian language and I'm really confused a little bit. I want it to explain to a Russian how to use "of" in an English sentence, but I can't find something that I know that it is really like "of" in the following contexts.
This is the president of Russia.
This is the end of the show.
This is the bank of Moscow.
This car is of my mother.
I've checked the translation on Google Translate, and this is what I found...
No, there is no direct equivalent. 'Of' (indicating possession/containment) is usually rendered into Russian using the genitive case or possessive adjectives/pronouns.
This is president of Russia. -- Это президент России.
This is the end of the show. -- Это конец шоу.
This is the bank of Moscow. -- Это банк Москвы.
This car is of my mother. -- Это машина моей матери.
There are only a few cases where 'of' can be rendered as из:
Сделан из камня -- 'made of stone'
Вилем II из Пернштейна -- 'William II of Pernstein'
Needless to say (or maybe not) that constructs such as 'to be proud of', 'to dispose of' are of a totally different kind and are rendered into Russian using other grammatical cases. Grammatical cases are a huge thing in Russian. You won't get far in your studies without them.
