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Finally...
 
I wanted to upload some other things as well, but my scanner had an allergic reaction to my table with the cyrillic alphabet. Looks like you'll only be getting this excerpt from my notes:

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Russian cases
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Doesn't Russian only have six cases (nominative, accusitive, genitive, dative, instrumental, prepositional), or am I missing something? That's the same amount as Latin (although they are slightly different in Latin: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative), and unless they're used drastically differently to in Latin--which doesn't seem to be the case from what I've gathered in a quick Google search--that's not very many at all.
 
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Doesn't Russian only have six cases (nominative, accusitive, genitive, dative, instrumental, prepositional), or am I missing something? That's the same amount as Latin (although they are slightly different in Latin: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative), and unless they're used drastically differently to in Latin--which doesn't seem to be the case from what I've gathered in a quick Google search--that's not very many at all.
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Yeah, it does only have 6 cases. However, because these cases exist, nobody cares at all about word order in Russian. It was an exaggeration on my part since there aren't any cases in Spanish or English and they freak me out.
 
It was an exaggeration on my part since there aren't any cases in Spanish or English and they freak me out.
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English does have cases, they just don't really matter.

And if you're freaked out by six cases, try six cases plus dual. 8)
 
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Yeah, it does only have 6 cases. However, because these cases exist, nobody cares at all about word order in Russian. It was an exaggeration on my part since there aren't any cases in Spanish or English and they freak me out.
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Ah, right--in Latin, word order's still pretty important iirc, although I can't think of a decent way to express it. Subject, object / adjective, verb works most of the time though (so you could have Quintus fortis est--Quintus is strong--and Quintus canes amavi--Quintus loved dogs).
 
Well, I meant as in this:
"I eat Rabbits." Rabbits would be in the accusative case, so you could write "Rabbits eat I" and I would still be the one eating the rabbits. I guess for normal sentences like "I went to school," you couldn't say "School, I went to" because that's not how it works (I think).

Hmm, if I do learn Russian, I'll be prepared for Latin's cases as well. ha~ I find it odd that Russian, a slavic language, has more cases than Spanish, which, you know, comes from Latin. I smell conspiracy!

English does have cases
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Blasphemy!
Out of curiosity, what are they?
 
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Cases are not very prominent in modern English, except in its personal pronouns (a remnant of the more extensive case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, case is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the clitic -'s.

Taken as a whole, English personal pronouns are typically said to have three morphological cases: a subjective case (such as I, he, she, we), used for the subject of a finite verb and sometimes for the complement of a copula; an objective case (such as me, him, her, us), used for the direct or indirect object of a verb, for the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula; and a possessive case (such as my/mine, his, her(s), our(s)), used for a grammatical possessor. That said, these pronouns often have more than three forms; the possessive case typically has both a determiner form (such as my, our) and a distinct independent form (such as mine, ours). Additionally, except for the interrogative personal pronoun who, they all have a distinct reflexive or intensive form (such as myself, ourselves).
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Hmm, if I do learn Russian, I'll be prepared for Latin's cases as well. ha~
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hahaha by that logic I should be prepared to handle the cases of a whole bunch of them. German says "no sorry".

I find it odd that Russian, a slavic language, has more cases than Spanish, which, you know, comes from Latin. I smell conspiracy!
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... no, it just means slavic languages have lots of cases too! english has no noticeable cases, and yet it's a germanic language.
 
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