How many cases has got Russian language?

6 Comments

1. Ballroom Blitzz says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Nominative – A person

   Genitive – Person’s (belongs to)

   Dative – To a person (as in giving to a person)

   Accusative – A person (as in to see a person)

   Instrumental – By a person (made by)

   Prepositional – About a person

   the 7th vocative case existed in the old russian language and was used to address animate beings, like ‘oh, my king’ and is still found in modern russian as several individual words "Боже" – Oh God (Бог), "Старче" – Oh old man (старик)
2. Rod B says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   of Vodka?
3. Shub-Niggurath says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental, prepositional.
   So that’s 6.
   There used to be a vocative as well but it fell out of use.
4. KiraJenLove says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Six.

   Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Prepositional, Genetive, Instrumental.
5. Я сошла с ума says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Doesn’t really make sense dear
6. miohun says:

   October 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   There are six cases in Russian.

   According to the Western grammatical tradition their sequence is:
   - nominative
   - accusative
   - genitive
   - dative
   - instrumental (ablativus)
   - prepositional (locativus)

   According to the Russian grammatical tradition their sequence is:
   - nominative
   - dative
   - genitive
   - accusative
   - instrumental (ablativus)
   - prepositional (locativus)

   The contributor above was right in stating that the vocative no longer exists officially, however, it has been preserved in several forms. For example ‘bozhe!’ (from ‘bog’ – ”God), ‘Mash’ (from ‘Masha’ – the nickname for Mariia / Mary), ‘pap’ (from ‘papa’ – ‘dad’).