Questions tagged [дательный-падеж]
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Dative case in subjects and titles
Why is dative case used in the following for example:
месяцы в году
игры на снегу
There is no sentence, so how can there be an indirect object..
Lawrence DeSouza
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The use of К (Dative) vs. В (Accusative)...?
In the following sentence:
Мужчина идёт к дому Павла.
Is translated as:
The man goes to Paul's house.
Could the same sentence be written as:
Мужчина идёт в дом Павла.
I don't really understand the difference of use between К and В. The resources…
Michael
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What does dative + быть mean?
Can you explain the phrase below, why is the dative used, what is the meaning, what is the grammatical principle at play here?
Ну где ему быть...
For clarification the next line is:
...вон, в котельной
neofight78
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The usage of dative case
I had a long break (~6 months) from learning Russian and now I'm a little confused.
Does
{personal_pronoun}_dative + (не) + infinitve + что, for example
Мне (не) прочитать эту книгу
mean
I must (mustn't) read this book
or
I (don't) want to read…
marmistrz
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Why/How these names have different grammatical endings: Marija - Natalija
Why/How these names have different grammatical endings: Marija - Natalija?
Or do they have the same endings in Dative case? Could somebody give me all 6 singular case endings for these two names for women, please.
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Does обо turn into обоим in the dative case?
I recently wrote an email in which I wanted to thank to people and wrote
Спасибо болшгое, оба вас.
This was described as "scatalogical" by one of the recipients who suggested instead
Вам обоим, большое спасибо.
I am particularly puzzled by…
DanielSank
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