Language Learning Log 1: Russian (Instrumental Case)
It's about time that I became systematic in my language learning goals. As such, I have decided to log my progress here every day in order to be able to convince myself that I can learn languages on my own.
This log will focus solely on Russian.
Current goals for Russian include:
-Being able to recognize what case a noun is in without looking it up.
-Understanding perfective and inperfective verbs in the context of work
-Being able to read children's works without using a dictionary
-Reaching an acceptable of pronunciation that is not readily recognizable as a foreign accent
Today, I learned about the INSTRUMENTAL CASE. It is as follows:
For male nouns, add -ом for most nouns
ём if it ends in stressed ж, ц, ч, ш, щ, or stressed й and ь
ем if it ends in unstressed ж, ц, ч, ш, щ, or unstressed й and ь
For female, nouns, replace а with -ой for noun ending in
replace stressed я with ёй
replace unstressed я with ей
For neuter nouns, add -м
For plural nouns, lok at the nominative singular form
if it ends with a consonant/ if it ends in а/о, add/replace ами
For the soft sounds, use ями
The INSTRUMENTAL CASE is used to express the means by which something is done. For example, "I eat by means of a spoon." is "Я ем ложкой". To express 'with' as in 'accompanied with', you would use с + the INSTRUMENTAL CASE. "Coffee with milk" would be "кофе с молоком".
The INSTRUMENTAL CASE also has the curious function of expressing your job. If you want to say "He works as a consultant", you would say "Он работает консультантом".
The pronouns are
Мной - Me
Тобой - You
Им - Him/ It
Ей - Her
Нами - Us
Вами - You (plural)
Ими - Them
There are other uses of this case which I shall cover here as I advance.
Oddly enough, having noted down what I learned seems to be useful in cementing it. It makes me feel better about knowing the instrumental case, which is a case I long avoided studying just to spend time perfecting the accusative, dative, prepositional (I spent a lot of time on this one!), and genetive (studying this thing is like a masochism tango) cases. Hopefully, I'll be able to do this more often since it makes me feel good. :) Of course, I'll be writing this down in print so that we can all enjoy my 'SUPER AWESOME MAMBO TANGO FOXTROT RUSSIAN GUIDE' and I can use it as a reference.
Next time, I'll go other the prepositional case and hopefully, something new. Ha, now I know why people keep these logs. :D
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This log will focus solely on Russian.
Current goals for Russian include:
-Being able to recognize what case a noun is in without looking it up.
-Understanding perfective and inperfective verbs in the context of work
-Being able to read children's works without using a dictionary
-Reaching an acceptable of pronunciation that is not readily recognizable as a foreign accent
Today, I learned about the INSTRUMENTAL CASE. It is as follows:
For male nouns, add -ом for most nouns
ём if it ends in stressed ж, ц, ч, ш, щ, or stressed й and ь
ем if it ends in unstressed ж, ц, ч, ш, щ, or unstressed й and ь
For female, nouns, replace а with -ой for noun ending in
replace stressed я with ёй
replace unstressed я with ей
For neuter nouns, add -м
For plural nouns, lok at the nominative singular form
if it ends with a consonant/ if it ends in а/о, add/replace ами
For the soft sounds, use ями
The INSTRUMENTAL CASE is used to express the means by which something is done. For example, "I eat by means of a spoon." is "Я ем ложкой". To express 'with' as in 'accompanied with', you would use с + the INSTRUMENTAL CASE. "Coffee with milk" would be "кофе с молоком".
The INSTRUMENTAL CASE also has the curious function of expressing your job. If you want to say "He works as a consultant", you would say "Он работает консультантом".
The pronouns are
Мной - Me
Тобой - You
Им - Him/ It
Ей - Her
Нами - Us
Вами - You (plural)
Ими - Them
There are other uses of this case which I shall cover here as I advance.
Oddly enough, having noted down what I learned seems to be useful in cementing it. It makes me feel better about knowing the instrumental case, which is a case I long avoided studying just to spend time perfecting the accusative, dative, prepositional (I spent a lot of time on this one!), and genetive (studying this thing is like a masochism tango) cases. Hopefully, I'll be able to do this more often since it makes me feel good. :) Of course, I'll be writing this down in print so that we can all enjoy my 'SUPER AWESOME MAMBO TANGO FOXTROT RUSSIAN GUIDE' and I can use it as a reference.
Next time, I'll go other the prepositional case and hopefully, something new. Ha, now I know why people keep these logs. :D
The instrumFFi
Forif theidd