At school, several classes are always devoted to the accusative case, as it causes the most serious difficulties for students. It is no wonder that adults often make mistakes when using the accusative case. So it's worth looking into this topic.
The accusative case is one of the 6 basic cases of the Russian language and is usually used in the pair "transitive verb + noun". What does this mean? This means that the noun in the accusative case experiences some kind of action directed at it by the noun or pronoun, which performs the function of the subject. A simple and understandable example is "I love my mother (dad, cat, sausages, porridge, music, flowers, etc.)" The subject, that is, the protagonist, in this case is the pronoun "I". The direct object, expressed by the noun following the verb, experiences the effect of the subject - love. And this direct object will always be used in the accusative case.
Checking this is quite easy: first, you can remember the case questions,
accusative answers "whom? what?", secondly, follow the endings, substituting nouns of the 1st declension instead of the complement in ambiguous cases - mom, dad, fox, etc. They will all end with "u".
The accusative case in Russian is often a source of errors, especially in colloquial speech, it is replaced by the genitive, dative, nominative and even prepositional. Very often, verbs require the use of a nominal direct object, but mistakes still slip through, so the study of the topic on how to use the accusative case correctly should be combined with the topic of building phrases and the features of the "verb + noun" pair.
It is also possible to find the accusative case in sentences that indicate temporary concepts, for example, "work all week", "get up every hour", "rewrite notes all night". In the latter case, both nouns are used in the accusative case, so care and caution should be exercised when parsing such sentences.
If the noun is very similar to the nominative but the noun is not the subject, you can parse the sentence to make sure the noun is in the accusative.
If there are doubts about the correct declension of the noun after
of some verb, you should look in the dictionary and check which case you want to use. For example, verbs such as "slow down", "inspire", "report", "send", "put on" and so on.
There are still some differences in the declension of animate and inanimate nouns. For example, "wait for the letter" and "wait for the father." In the first case, the case will be genitive, and in the second - accusative. This is easy to verify by asking questions from the verb to the object. So the substitution of nouns related to the first declension is still not a panacea. You should check yourself in several ways.
And the best way to become a literate person and practically not make mistakes is to read a lot of good literature.
