Possessive pronouns - Предложеный/Родиетельный
EDIT: My apologies for MISSPELLING the title, it should of course be Предложный/Родительный
So, now we know 3 cases:
Именительный
Родительный
Предложный
So, we've made it halfway! And after this, a lot of things overlap... which you can either look at as an advantage - you already know it but in a different context - or a disadvantage: it can be confusing if you go through it too quickly - it's easy to underestimate it. But that's beside the point:
- The point, ladies and gentlemen, is that we only know the possessive pronouns(my, your, our) for one case: the nominative.
| English | M | F | N | Pl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| My | Мой | Моя | Моё | Мои |
| Your | Твой | Твоя | Твоё | Твои |
| Our | Наш | Наша | Наше | Наши |
| Your(pl) | Ваш | Ваша | Ваше | Ваши |
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But, when we want to say, for instance, "my mother's car", in Russian(and in other languages too, don't complain) we have to change 'my' into родительный too. Essentially, the my is stuck to the word mother... 'my mother' 's car.
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This is not as big of a deal as it sounds. (It's all going to be ok)
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I hope it won't be too much of info at once if we go through the род. and the прeд.
Родительный
Имен|Мой/Моё|Моя|Мои|Наш/Наше|Наша|Наши :---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---: Род.|Моего|Моей|Моих|Нашего|Нашей|Наших
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So, first of all, note that the n/m versions are the same - моего/нашего
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It can be condensed to this:
| M/N | F | Pl |
|---|---|---|
| -его | -ей | -их |
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Last thing to note: -его is pronounced evo
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So, let's try it out:
My mother's car:
Машина моей матери
To make it "your/our/etc" -> твоей/вашей, it's pretty logical.
Предложный Падеж
Имен|Мой/Моё|Моя|Мои|Наш/Наше|Наша|Наши :---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---: Пред.|Моём|Моей|Моих|Нашем|Нашей|Наших
For the prepositional, it's the same idea.
We're talking about my friend
Мы говорим о моих друзьях
Again, try it out - it's not that difficult - and if you're ever not sure, you can always come back here to check!
A little challenge, from a very famous book: "Лолита, свет моей жизни, огонь моих чресел. Грех мой, душа моя."
Posted Apr 8, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC · edited