Accusative singular assessment
First decide object, goal, or time; then apply gender, pattern, and animacy.
- Assessment
- Form the direct objects: кни́га, мо́ре, стол.
- Form the direct objects: студе́нт, геро́й, Мари́я.
- Contrast destination and location with музе́й.
- Correct: Я ви́жу учи́тель.
- Explain why ви́жу стол and Стол стои́т contain identical forms with different cases.
- Give one grammatical animacy exception in each direction.
- Answers and explanations
- чита́ть кни́гу; ви́деть мо́ре; ви́деть стол.
- ви́деть студе́нта; встреча́ть геро́я; ви́деть Мари́ю.
- иду́ в музе́й; я в музе́е.
- Я ви́жу учи́теля: masculine animate accusative copies genitive singular.
- Masculine inanimate accusative and nominative are syncretic; syntax and semantic role identify the case.
- For example ку́кла is grammatically animate; наро́д is grammatically inanimate.
- Ready signal: Continue when you can explain every form through relation + number + noun profile, not by memorising one undifferentiated accusative column.
Apply this next
- Retrieve the rule without looking, then continue to the next lesson.