Full transcript of prepositional-case. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irpPCtJ4rRo
and welcome to the Russian readers Channel and in today’s video we’re continuing to talk about cases and we’re going to look at the prepositional case and if you look at the way cases traditionally are listed in the Russian grammar you will see that the prepositional case actually comes last so why is it that we are looking at it right after the nominative case well that’s because the prepositional case is the second easiest case after nominative both in terms of form and in terms of meaning and I will explain to you why that is the case in just a second and a little disclaimer in this video we’re only talking about singular nouns in the prepositional case we’re not talking about plurals we’re not talking about adjectives or any other parts of speech so as far as singular nouns in the prepositional case go yes the prepositional case is certainly the second easiest case after nominative and to remind you to truly know a case you must know both its form and its meaning in other words you must know what endings to apply to your nouns or adjectives or whatnot and you need to know when to actually use that case what is its meaning or what is its use so as far as endings go for singular nouns in Russian what makes this case so easy is that it is the same ending for all three genders so whether it’s masculine or feminine or neuter all nouns regardless of the gender in Russian take the same ending in the prepositional case which is yeah and the meaning of the prepositional case is also very easy it is location so whenever you use your noun as a location you know you you’re saying for example you are in a place right uh you live in America or you live in a house or you work in an office or you you drive in a car right so you put all those nouns you know car America office Etc uh in the prepositional case in fact some people even refer to the prepositional case as the locative case because yes it’s primary meaning is location so let’s look at some examples in all three agenders so you can see exactly how the prepositional case works so for the masculine gender let’s take a very common noun DOL right Dom in Russian means house so don is its nominative form right remember if you watch my video on the normative case uh the normative case is as this case and Russian right there are no changes no endings that you apply it’s the dictionary form so for example if you say eta Dom right you use the nominative case right this is a house right but what if you want to say that you live in a house right well in that case you’re going to have to put the word house in the prepositional case again why because you say I live where in a house so that makes it a location and according to Prussian grammar if you use your noun as a location you must put it in the prepositional case so again regardless of the gender you add the ending year to the prepositional case so in Russian you would say right I live in a house so again in English there wouldn’t be any difference right you would say this is a house I live in a house right there is no difference whatsoever but in Russian you must apply that ending to use the prepositional case correctly in its primary meaning which is location that’s why Dom changes to Don Mia so for a feminine noun let’s take another very common noun right mashrina means car and again if we were to use it in the nominative case we could say eta Machina right this is a car but what if you want to say that you’re physically in a car right literally you would say I’m in a car for example right a very easy sentence so in Russian you would say yeah right and while if your noun actually ends in a vowel right so most feminine nouns and then ah or yeah so in that case of course you don’t simply add your prepositional case ending yeah right but rather you replace uh with that ending right you replace your vowel with that case ending right so uh shrina becomes and again why did we use a prepositional case in that sentence because you are in a car so car is your location and you simply apply the prepositional case which again it’s a no-brainer for all three genders you apply the same ending yeah and for a neuter noun let’s take another very common uh noun right acno is a window so it ends in an or it’s a typical neuter gender noun so again if we were to use it in an automative case we could say simply ETA right this is a window but if we want to put it in the prepositional case we would have to have something in the window right or we’d have to see something in the window so for example we could say yeah right I see light in the window I see some kind of light in the window right so CVS is light right where do I see the light in the window of acne and again you’re noun here ends already in a vowel so instead of Simply adding your case ending you you replace your vowel with the case ending so akno becomes acne in the prepositional case so let me test you a little bit I will give you a few nouns in the nominative case and you will put them in the prepositional case using the preposition voila right Ian and remember to apply the prepositional case ending for example uh New York right it’s a city it’s the same as in English New York right so how would you say in New York you can pause the video but for each example I’ll give you the answer right away so pause the video if you want to think a little extra so in New York would of course be the New York New York is technically masculine but again doesn’t matter you just add yeah to all three genders how about America right America America how would you say in America you would say right for example I live in America would be erikia okay another example gorod right how would you say in the city right in the city of Goradia okay how about malakua milk right so imagine something is in the milk how would you say in the milk that is of course is a newer noun but again we don’t really care about that we just add yeah to all genders how about quartira right quartira apartment how do you say in the apartment that would be guys don’t forget that prepositional case is used not only with physical or geographical locations it can also be used with something more abstract for example if you have information in your phone write someone’s number or a photo right telephone is a phone in Russian so you would say so it’s physically or well digital in your phone right so telefonia or if you read something in a book right kaniga is the book you would say Etc right so don’t just think of it as you know uh location in terms of you know city house or apartment or something like that so I think you will agree that the prepositional case is actually fairly easy right and of course I didn’t tell you everything there is to know about the preposition Keys we’ll keep recording more videos about certain other uses or other forms of the prepositional case but you know by and large yeah this is a pretty good overview of what this case is all about and I’m pretty sure you will agree that it’s quite easy alright guys I hope this video was helpful remember you can post your questions in the comment section below if you like the video please be sure to hit the like button and subscribe to our Channel remember also to subscribe to our app Russian readers we have a lot of great stories that help you learn Russian grammar including cases and of course vocabulary practice your reading practice your listening skills and well I will see you next time thank you all for watching space