Genitive Case

[oncelosthorizon.livejournal.com]

Cases and their usage vary from language to language, obviously. If someone could give me the lowdown on the Russian genitive case, I would really appreciate it. Examples would be great :)

Comments

[shellesie.livejournal.com]

noun in genitive case answers questions "кого?", "чего?". To recognize Gen.you can use the sentence "У меня нет..." (I have no...)
У меня нет собаки (I have no dog)

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

In addition to what shellesie said, genitive is used as the possessive (like in many other languages), specificaly его and ее as his/her (but note that my/your are adjectival мой, твой). It's also used as the object of some verbs (what objects verbs take is somewhat arbitrary and depends upon the verb - most take accusative but some take genitive or instrumental) and as the object of many prepositions (e.g. за)

A number of web sites offer Russian primers that cover this stuff in more depth.

[onodera.livejournal.com]

За usually takes instrumental. Hi hid behind the armchair. Он спрятался за креслом.
When you vote for somebody, it's за + accusative. We vote for freedom! Mы голосуем за свободу!

[oncelosthorizon.livejournal.com]

This is what always gets me... the possesive pronouns vs. the genitive case (at least in Russian.) I think I've got it down pretty well now, after much preactice :)

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Oops, I meant to say с (when meaning "from" not "with"). I should teach myself to double-check before I post some day!