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Covers questions about different cases. Case is a morphological category of nouns and adjectives that signals their relation to other words in a sentence.
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надо and the instrumental case (knife cutting bread; a tool)
I know about the use of dative case, or nominative case, as illustrated here: How does "следует" behave towards "должен", "надо" and "нужно" when talking about things 'one must/should/etc. do', and th …
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Preposition вокруг (+ genitive) but sentence only has accusative nouns
I have a sentence,
Он видел вокруг красивые, живописные места, невысокие горы, леса, реку Волгу.
and translating is not hard, and I think the meaning is,
He saw beautiful, picturesque place …
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(по)вредить with accusative and/or dative
According to my dictionary (Kenneth Katzner, link):
вреди́ть v.impfv. [pfv. повреди́ть; pres. врежу́, вреди́шь] (with dat.) to harm; damage; be injurious to.
I think I should use the dative case aft …
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вовлечённых - proper use in a translated English sentence for "involved"?
I had earlier asked a question about adjectives and participles, and cited this link:
How to tell a participle from an adjective?
I now understand the answer of the above link better -
The answ …
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Через неделю - why "in two weeks time"?
I'm doing exercises and i found in the text, "через неделю" and in parentheses it says "in two weeks time". I looked up через, a preposition with the accusative case, and for the 'time' definition it …
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Знаешь его брата - is 'его' in genitive and 'брата' in accusative?
There is this simple sentence I don't quite understand, grammatically;
Он думает, ты знаешь его брата.
He thinks you know his brother.
So based on things like,
Ivan's dog = The dog of Ivan
собака …