Преподаватель русского языка?

[drevo-obezyani.livejournal.com]

I have two questions about the phrase "я преподаватель русского языка" -

1) What is преподаватель? I know "преподавать" is "to teach" but i'm not familiar with this form of the word - it seems to me it should be "преподаю" or "преподавала."

2) Why is русского языка in genitive rather than accusative case?

Comments

[l-ionella.livejournal.com]

преподаватель русского языка - teacher of Russion
преподаватель is a noun

Also:
учить - teach
учитель - teacher

преподаватель is closer to lecturer, though.

[l-ionella.livejournal.com]

sorry, Russion should be Russian ;)))

[drevo-obezyani.livejournal.com]

Oh! Now it all makes sense, спасибо!

…i knew that, too. Or at least i did a few months ago. Guess this is what i deserve for not studying hard enough )

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

In this case it's definitely teacher, not a lecturer :-)

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

"I am teacher of the Russian Language"/ "I'm a Russian teacher". I think the "тель" ending is supposed to denote a man who does _____.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

Concerning your 2d question:

Русский язык (Nominative)
русского языка (Genitive)
русскому языку (Dative)
русский язык (Accusative)
русским языком (Industrial)
о русском языке (Предложный - no idea what the English term is)

For masculine nouns and adjectives Accusative is the same as Nominative.

Это стол. - It's a table.
Вижу стол. - I see a table.

[natha1ie.livejournal.com]

Предложный - Prepositive.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

Thanx a lot! I was about to suggest "prepositional"%))))), it's a good job I didn't in the end!

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

Prepositional is the way it is in all of the textbooks I've seen.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

There you go... I think now it's better to use "original" Russian terms:) We DO learn the English ones, after all:)

[noser.livejournal.com]

It's definitely Prepositional, not Prepositive.

[kite-head.livejournal.com]

Instrumental, not Industrial is how it usually gets translated.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

well I've met this particular variant, it's not an invention of mine this time:)

[kite-head.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude if I was. Where have you met this variant? I'm an American student, second year studying the language, and also studying linguistics and have never seen it.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

Oh it's all right, don't worry;)
I'm also a linguistics student and I happen to teach Russian as a foreign language (although I'll only get the diploma in four months). I just deal with quite a number of textbooks, and I guess you may be right, coz the textbook I meant was for Spanish-speaking students. May be the terminology is different. Although it's a bit strange that you guys have it as "instrumental", while they learn it as "industrial"...

And you see what's going on with the poor "Предложный" - exactly the same situation. Some say it's "prepositional", others suggest "prepositive".

Unfortunately of all my foreign language textbooks now I only have a Turkish one:)) won't be of any help to check out the terms:)

Anyway, thank you for correcting me!

[kite-head.livejournal.com]

Oh no worries! Again, sorry if it seemed rude. But that is very fascinating. I did, however, know abotu the Prepositional/Prepositive. I've even seen older textbooks that refer to it as the Locative (which it is analogous to, but Locative (from my understanding) is borrowed from Latin)).

Congrats on getting certified to teach Russian as a foreign language. That sounds amazing. Turkish and Spanish you say; what other languages do you speak?