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- <title>10. In case you were wondering</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="up" href="ch03.html" title="Chapter 3. Lesson 3"><link rel="prev" href="ch03s09.html" title="9. Beyond "how do you do?""><link rel="next" href="ch03s11.html" title="11. The Russian intonation system"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">10. In case you were wondering</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch03s09.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Lesson 3</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03s11.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e10745"></a>10. In case you were wondering</h2></div></div></div><p><b>Accusative case. </b>The accusative case is used to indicate <span class="bold"><strong>direct objects</strong></span> (whom? what?) and destinations when used with the prepositions <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В</em></span></strong></span> or <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">HA</em></span></strong></span> and a "verb of motion".</p><p>The table below illustrates the accusative case endings for nouns and adjectives and compares them to nominative. You will notice that we have included the plural forms <span class="bold"><strong>они.</strong></span></p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1" width="100%"><col width="10%"><col width="40%"><col width="10%"><col width="40%"><tr valign="top"><td align="center" colspan="2"><span class="bold"><strong>NOMINATIVE</strong></span></td><td align="center" colspan="2"><span class="bold"><strong>ACCUSATIVE</strong></span></td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">он</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>новый студент</p><p>старый дом</p></td><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">он</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>нового студента</p><p>старый дом</p></td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">она</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>новая студентка</p><p>старая квартира</p></td><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">она</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>новую студентку</p><p>старую квартиру</p></td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">оно</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>новое слово</p><p>старое кресло</p></td><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">оно</em></span></strong></span></td><td><p>новое слово</p><p>старое кресло</p></td></tr></table></div><div class="informaltable"><table border="1" width="100%"><col width="10%"><col width="40%"><col width="10%"><col width="40%"><tr valign="top"><td align="center" colspan="2"><span class="bold"><strong>NOMINATIVE</strong></span></td><td align="center" colspan="2"><span class="bold"><strong>ACCUSATIVE</strong></span></td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">они</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">новые студенты старые костюмы</em></span></td><td align="center"><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">они</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">новых студентов старые костюмы</em></span></td></tr></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e10864"></a>10.1. Pronouns</h3></div></div></div><p>The table shows the accusative case forms for pronouns and compares them to nominative.</p><div class="informaltable"><table width="100%"><col width="1*"><col width="1*"><thead align="center"><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong>NOMINATIVE</strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong>ACCUSATIVE</strong></span></td></tr></thead><tbody align="center"><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">я</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">меня</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">ты</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">тебя</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">он</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">его</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">она</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">её</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">мы</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">нас</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">вы</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">вас</em></span></strong></span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">они</em></span></strong></span></td><td><span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">их</em></span></strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="d0e10944"></a>10.2. <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Упражнение</em></span> №13.</h3></div></div></div><p>Look back through lessons 2 and 3 and find examples of the accusative case.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch03s09.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch03.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03s11.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">9. 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