Friday, October 05, 2007

Re: Cases, part 3

As promised, here are some more posts about forming the accusative case. According to the chart, the accusative form of masculine singular nouns is identical to the nominative form for inanimate objects, and identical to the genitive form for animate objects. Masculine singular nouns in the genitive case end in either "-a" or "-я." If the noun ends in "-ь" or "-й," in the nominative case, that letter is stripped off and replaced with "-я." If the noun ends in any other consonant, then add "-a" to form the genitive case. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part, it's that simple.

Here's your homework. Give me the genitive singular forms of all of these masculine nouns in the nominative case:

аспирин
больной
дневник
корабль
круг
настой
огонь
повелитель
случай
читатель

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