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Grammar guides and tips for learning Russian.
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Every Russian noun is masculine, feminine, or neuter — and the ending usually tells you which. Learn the gender rules, the soft-sign trap, how to build plurals, and why gender drives the rest of the grammar.
Russian verbs come in two conjugation patterns — the -е- type and the -и- type. Learn the six endings of each, the one-letter я-form consonant change, and how to handle the irregular verbs everyone needs.
The prepositional case answers "where?" and "about what?" — and it is the one case that never appears without a preposition. Learn the в/на/о endings, the special -у location forms, and the в-vs-на choice.
The accusative marks the receiver of the action — whom or what. Learn the animacy rule, the endings, the pronouns, and the case's other jobs (direction and time), then test yourself.
The genitive is the workhorse of Russian — possession, "of", absence, quantities, and the case after numbers. Learn what triggers it, the endings (including the tricky genitive plural), and how to avoid the classic mistakes.
Perfective vs imperfective is the single most important idea in the Russian verb. Learn what each aspect means, how the pairs form, how aspect shapes the past, future, and commands, and the rules that are genuinely fixed.