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Dative impersonals usually express personal feelings, where experiencer in dative case can possibly be considered as subject Мне dat. скучно. 'I'm bored.' Other impersonals have an element which is neither nominative nor dative, but still is a nominal verb argument Меня acc. тошнит. 'I feel sick.'
In Russian grammar, the system of declension is elaborate and complex. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are declined for two grammatical numbers (singular and plural) and six grammatical cases (see below); some of these parts of speech in the singular are also declined by three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter).
"Dative" comes from Latin cāsus datīvus ("case for giving"), a translation of Greek δοτικὴ πτῶσις, dotikē ptôsis ("inflection for giving"). [2] Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar also refers to it as epistaltikḗ "for sending (a letter)", [3] from the verb epistéllō "send to", a word from the same root as epistle.
^† This case is called lokál in Czech and Slovak, miejscownik in Polish, місцевий (miscevý) in Ukrainian and месны (miesny) in Belarusian; these names imply that this case also covers locative case. ^‡ The prepositional case in Scottish Gaelic is classically referred to as a dative case. Vocative case
Case name Ending Meaning Example Meaning of the example Nominative case: ∅: subject маҗь: forest (as a subject) Accusative case-п, -м (rare) direct object ма́җеп: forest (as an object) Genitive case-т, -н (rare) possession ма́җет: of a forest Dative case: animate -н: indirect object (animate) ӄун, ӄумн: to the ...
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The instrumental case is notably used in Russian, where the case is called творительный падеж (tvoritel'nyj padež) though similar usages also can be found in other Balto-Slavic languages. In most declension paradigms, the instrumental case in Russian can generally be distinguished by the -ом ("-om") suffix for most masculine ...