Thread: grammar question

Каждый день мы ходим на занятия.

Of what case is заняния ? Looks like it is of genitive case to me but why of genitive case ??

Originally Posted by Johnroman

Каждый день мы ходим на занятия.

Of what case is занятия ? Looks like it is of genitive case to me but why of genitive case ??

Accusative.

Originally Posted by Оля

Originally Posted by Johnroman

Каждый день мы ходим на занятия.

Of what case is занятия ? Looks like it is of genitive case to me but why of genitive case ??

Accusative.

Is the word animate ? What is the ending of an accusative a "Я".
The most common endings are У and ю.

Originally Posted by Johnroman

Is the word animate ? What is the ending of an accusative a "Я".

It's accusative plural.
Of course the word isn't animate.

It's plural and inanimate and therefore doesn't change its ending. "Classes"

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Can people please give better explanations.

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занятие = lesson / class.

Nouns that end -ие are neuter.

The nominative plural of neuter nouns that end -ие is -ия.

занятие - lesson
занятия - lessons

The accusative of neuter nouns is identical in form to the nominative, so
занятия is also the accusative plural form of the noun.

The У / Ю ending is for FEMININE nouns in the accusative.

Originally Posted by TATY

Can people please give better explanations.

+1,000,000

Originally Posted by TATY

.. The accusative of neuter nouns is identical in form to the nominative ..

For neuter nouns, accusative and nominative always coincide and have always coincided, moreover. This simple rule apply for all Indo-European languages in which nominative and accusative still happen to differ (Russian, German, Greek, Latin). Nouns having different accusative and nominative forms fall into either Masculine or Feminine gender.

И кто знает: для какого имени существительного среднего рода можно сказать, что все 6 форм единственного числа и мн. ч. все одинаковы?
Несмотря на то, что слово это описывает оживленного человека мужск. р.!!

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Originally Posted by chaika

И кто знает: для какого имени существительного среднего рода можно сказать, что все 6 форм единственного числа и мн. ч. все одинаковы?
Несмотря на то, что слово это описывает оживленного человека мужск. р.!!

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