An Introduction to Russian Cases - Russian Guide Part 14

Here I introduce one of the hardest things to get used to in Russian. They are called grammatical cases.
6 cases:
Nominative
Accusative
Genitive
Prepositional
Dative
Instrumental

[@rembo96]

Hello, I am a Russian native speaker, I'd like to correct you. In your explanation the Prepositional case sounds like a clone of the Dative case, because the only thing you say about it is that "мне" (prep. form) means "to me", but it actually means "about me". The name of this case is very confusing, it would be much better to call it Locative, because most often it is used with prepositions "в" and "на" ("in" and "on"). And even the preposition "о" ("about") mentioned earlier used to have more of a location meaning in Old Russian, like "near", "around" (I believe it was used the same way in English in the past, you can still hear it sometimes, like: "I had no weapon about me").

[@ihavenoname6724]

👍Thanks.

[@nibunimu]

Hi Tom, you should work on the pronunciation of the letter [я]. I did not immediately understand what you said when you said [меня]. [я] sounds like [йа] only at the beginning of a word or after a vowel. After a consonant, it softens the consonant and sounds like a soft [а]. Sorry for the unsolicited advice 🙃

[@slavicatomson7883]

I speak Serbien, hope I can master Russian, too. Thanks for lesson😅