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Accusative Plural

A fully derivable animacy system: nominative plural for inanimates, genitive plural for animates

derive accusative plural from forms already mastered apply animacy across masculine, feminine, and neuter plural nouns use plural direct objects, goals, durations, and accusative prepositions handle the special animate accusative pattern in two-to-four numeral phrases

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Before you start

Prerequisites
Complete Module 2.06 first
Estimated time
50 minutes
Lesson steps
10

Deliberately not taught here

  • Adjective forms are shown only as agreement gateways. Full adjective and numeral paradigms require their own modules.
Small steps

What you will learn

  1. The central plural animacy rule Plural gender no longer determines the accusative shape; animacy does.
  2. Inanimate nouns copy nominative plural All genders use the already-known nominative plural form when the noun is grammatically inanimate.
  3. Animate nouns copy genitive plural The rule applies across gender and across regular or irregular plural stems.
  4. Grammatical animacy at the edges Plural morphology is the best diagnostic for nouns whose meaning and grammar do not line up transparently.
  5. Plural direct objects and word order Case morphology keeps subject and object roles visible even when Russian rearranges the sentence.
  6. Plural goals with в and на Goal-directed в/на still governs accusative; most destination nouns are inanimate and therefore copy nominative plural.
  7. Numeral phrases inside accusative The whole phrase is accusative, but inanimate and animate two-to-four phrases have different internal shapes.
  8. Time, duration, and accusative prepositions Plural time spans often use accusative, while an internal numeral controls the noun form.
  9. Agreement gateway in accusative plural Adjectives and demonstratives mirror the same plural animacy split.
  10. Accusative plural assessment Derive the form from animacy, then account for any numeral inside the phrase.
Mastery

Ready means you can...

  • derive accusative plural from forms already mastered
  • apply animacy across masculine, feminine, and neuter plural nouns
  • use plural direct objects, goals, durations, and accusative prepositions
  • handle the special animate accusative pattern in two-to-four numeral phrases
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