Full transcript of accusative-case. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnOpknhh0g
ETA sock you suck ETA Vada pew vodu ETA Journal yeah Journal and welcome to Russian readers and we’re continuing our series of videos on the Russian cases and in today’s video we’ll talk about the accusative case so if you’ve been watching our videos in the order we’ve been posting them then you may know that we have already spoken briefly about the nominative case and the prepositional case and in those videos I mentioned that as far as singular nouns go the nominative case is certainly the easiest and the prepositional case is the second easiest case in Russian and if you ask me the accusative case is actually the third easiest case after nominative and prepositional again if you ask at the traditional way traditional order that the Russian cases are listed the accusative cases not you know the third or the second or anything so we just take them by the level of difficulty for nouns anyway and since this is the first video on the accusative case that we’re making again we’re going to keep it simple we’re just gonna speak about nouns we’re not going to touch on adjectives or pronouns or any other parts of speech but as far as nouns go we’ll talk about both singular and plural nouns because both singular and plural nouns in the accusative case have very easy forms however there is a bit of a Nuance that you all have to know about the adhesive Case accusative Case is the only case in Russian in which it actually matters whether your nouns are animate or inanimate in none of the other cases it matters in Russian but in the accusative case it actually matters quite a bit so in this video yes we’ll speak about both singular and plural nouns but will only speak about inanimate nouns so no people no creatures pets animals just objects or things and don’t worry guys of course we’ll cover animate nouns in one of the future videos but again in this video we’re just gonna look at the inanimate nouns with the accusative case so do you guys remember what two things or two aspects you need to learn you need to memorize about each new case that you learn that’s right you need to learn its meaning or uses in other words when you would actually use this case when you would apply this case in your sentences right and the second thing is the endings or the actual form right what endings do you add for nouns adjectives Etc again in this video we’re only talking about nouns though so what’s the general meaning what’s the primary meaning of the accusative case again guys remember all cases have usually more than one meaning or more than one use but in these first videos we’re just looking at the general primary meaning of each case so what is it for the accusative case so for the accusative case the primary meaning is the direct object object so what is the direct object a direct object is what you apply your action to directly in the sentence in other words a direct object is a thing that you do something to for example if you have a sentence I eat pizza right I would be the subject so that’s the person who does the action and then eat is the verb which is the action right and then the pizza would be a direct object because you’re doing something directly to the pizza so the your action is directed at the pizza so Pizza is your direct object some other examples I drink water right so water is your direct object because you drink it I am reading a book so a book is your direct object I am listening to music again music is your direct object please keep in mind that your action does not have to be physical or observable right so it can be something more abstract or not even an action per se right for example if you say I like um music right or I like rock music so rock music would still be your object direct object even though like technical is not an action right but it’s still a verb that is directed to your object so music is the object of your liking or for example you can say I want a car right or I need a car right so I want what a car this is a direct object again even though there is no observable physical action per se so the primary meaning of the accusative case is pretty straightforward right just put your noun in the accusative case whenever it’s used as a direct object so what about the form or the endings of the accusative case right and let me remind you guys that again in this video we’re only talking about inanimate objects and this is where I have the good news for you so for inanimate objects masculine neuter and plural nouns fully coins side with the nominative keys so what do I mean by coincide I mean they match their identical they overlap if you will with the non-gift keys so they’ll look no different from the non-gif case so let’s look at some examples let’s take a common masculine noun for example butter broad right a sandwich uh in the normative case you would say eta butter broad this is a sandwich right in the accusative case you would say butter Broad I am eating a sandwich right so even though a sandwich in the sentence is used as a direct object and technically it is in the accusative case it looks exactly the same as the nominative case so guys very important if you say yayam butter broad the word butter brought is still in the accusative case it does not mean it’s a nominative case it just means that accusative case looks exactly the same as the nominative case in this form let’s take another masculine noun Journal right a magazine again in the normative case it would just be ETA Journal this is a magazine and then if you’re doing something to it for example you’re reading it you would say yeah again you can see there is no difference another example a dome right a house in an objective case you would say eta Dome this is a house and an accusative for example you could say yeah right I see what a house it is a direct object it is an accusative case but the form is exactly the same as the nominative so let’s look at some neuter nouns um let’s take yablika right this is an apple again no difference this is milk I am drinking milk and let’s look at some plural examples again uh in any mod plural nouns look exactly the same in both nominative and accusative for instance right sandwiches these are sandwiches damage of case accusative right I’m eating sandwiches these are apples right no difference these are magazines I am reading magazines or I read magazines so what happened to the feminine nouns in the accusative well have you guys ever heard sentences like yes and you wonder you know why it changes like that why Vada becomes becomes musical or kuniga becomes well this is why this is because you put them in the accusative case so yes guys you will see feminine nouns in Russian that you know most of the time end in an ah change that ah ending to U in the accusative case but you may also know that some feminine nouns end in ya or even the soft sign so uh remember the simple rule for the accusative case feminine noun doesn’t change let’s say together to you soft sign doesn’t change so let’s look at some examples uh pizza for example right not a purely Russian word but still a very popular food so in the namative case you would say eta Pizza this is pizza but I’m eating pizza because Pizza is a direct object because you’re eating it another example Vada water normative case this is water uh accusative case I am drinking water and here you can also see that there is a stress shift right so you will see it quite a bit uh when you change the case of a noun um oftentimes the stress will shift as well so it’s Vada in the normative case but vodu in the accusative case let’s look at a couple of examples with ya right for example piesnia right as a song song Russian you would say this is a song just an example in the nominative but yeah I’m listening to a song and we can see that your ya changes to you another example family this is a family but someone might say mu I want a family right and again even though it’s not a physical action this is still a direct object and your yeah changes to you and finally feminine nouns ending in a soft sign uh do not change in the accusative case so let’s look at some examples um osin right the fall and this is a feminine noun in Russian uh you could say this is a fall or you could say yalu blue or sing I love or I like fall another common example is right it’s again it’s a feminine noun ending in South sign so you could say in a nominative case I’m closing the door in this case the door is your direct object but there is no uh change and just a reminder that plural nouns as long as they’re in animal in the accusative don’t change even if they’re originally feminine that doesn’t matter so you could say yeah I’m reading books I am closing doors so you just go by the basically nominative plural and now let me test you real quick I will give you a few nouns and you will try to use them in the accusative case our first noun is gazieta gaziata newspaper so how would you say for example I’m reading a newspaper yeah how would you change the word gazetta you can pause the video but for this and further examples I’m going to give you the answers in just a couple of seconds so of course you would say yeah right because Gazette is a direct object it is feminine ends in an ah and ah changes to another example is film right a movie or a film film so how would you say um watching a movie I’m watching is so what would be the correct form of feeling well it would also be film of course right because film is masculine so it does not change in the accusative case so I’m watching a movie it would be yeah another example how would you say I’m eating a banana yeah M and the correct answer is yes guys in Russian banana is masculine I know it is banana in English so kind of sounds feminine from the Russian perspective but in Russian is in the consonant it is masculine and there is no change in the accusative case ice cream so how would you say I like ice cream yeah Lu blue blue the correct answer is a neuter noun and it does not change in the accusative case a car how would you say I am buying a car I’m buying would be yeah and the car would be your direct object so how would you say I’m buying a car you would say yeah right because machine is feminine and ah changes foreign is a feminine noun ending in soft sign and it means a notebook like a notebook that you write in so imagine you see a notebook right it would be the direct object of your seeing so how would you see how would you say I see a notebook yeah visual correct answer yeah because even though it’s a feminine noun it ends in a soft sign and remember the rule yeah to you soft sign doesn’t change and last example vinoa wine so how would you say I’m drinking wine uh yeah Pew and the correct answer is a typical neuter noun and it does not change in the accusative case okay guys I hope you found this video helpful if you did be sure to hit the like button remember you can ask us any questions in the 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