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Lena, what do these two abbreviations mean? Винительный неодуш. and Винительный одуш.

Originally Posted by kgcole

What do these two abbreviations mean? Винительный неодуш. and Винительный одуш.

Винительный stands for the accusative.

Неодуш. = неодушевленный = inanimate. That means the inanimate noun, like man, girl, horse.
Одуш. = одушевленный = animate. That means the animate noun, like book, table, air, knowledge.

The fact that the noun is animated or inanimated affects the forms of the accusative of the masculine nouns that belong to the first declension and have zero flexion both in the singular and plural. It also affects the forms of the accusative of the nouns that belong to the second declension in the plural.

Nominative – accusative

Конь – коня, но стол – стол
Кони – коней, но столы – столы
Женщины – женщин, но карты – карты

Perhaps these tables can help
Имя существительное в русском языке — Википедия

Kevin, why on earth did you choose to learn a language with the grammar like that? I guess no one had warned you.

Originally Posted by Helenej

Kevin, why on earth did you choose to learn a language with the grammar like that? I guess no one had warned you.

lol...it's true no one warned me But then, my desire to communicate has always exceeded my common sense, I guess Thanks for you help

Originally Posted by kgcole

lol...it's true no one warned me But then, my desire to communicate has always exceeded my common sense, I guess

Perhaps in the end we should publish this thread as a separate book as a warning to those whose desire to communicate exceeds their common sense. They might get more resonable.

Originally Posted by Helenej

Perhaps in the end we should publish this thread as a sebarate book as a warning to those whose desire to communicate exceeds their common sense. They might get more resonable.

ha ha...or it could be encouraging. Just talking about these things makes the goal of learning a language seem plausible. At least it does for me.

Originally Posted by kgcole

ha ha...or it could be encouraging. Just talking about these things makes the goal of learning a language seem plausible. At least it does for me.

You are right. We want to get realized in life. And we also need a good company, pleasant chat and friends with whom we could share what we have.