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The accusative case is an oblique case, which is used in the sentences like "Я ценю... Пушкина, дом, общество, страну" (I appreciate ... Pushkin, home, society, country). The nouns in the accusative answer such questions as Кого? Что? (Whom? What?).

Like the rest of cases (except prepositional) the accusative can be used with prepositions or without them. The typical prepositions for the accusative are: в, на, за, о/об, по, под, про, с, через. For example:

The principal meaning of the accusative is to designate a person or thing to whom or which and action is being done. For example: Люся любит брата (Lucy loves her brother); Мы видим море (We see the sea)

When used with the prepositions в and на, the accusative means motion towards or direction correspondigly.

To put nouns into accusative correctly you should know that Russian nouns are divided into animate and inanimate. Animate nouns are those which describe someone alive like человек, кошка (a man, a cat).

In general, the accusative is formed from the nominative singular nouns with the help of the following endings: -у, -ю, -а, -я (singular); -ей, -ой, -ов, -ев (plural). In most cases, you should remove the last letter from the nominative of the noun and add one of the mentioned endings (луна less -а plus -у = луну). The good news is that in some cases the accusative is similar to the nominative and genitive.

The tables below sum up how the accusative of nouns is formed.

The Accusative of singular nouns

The Accusative of plural nouns

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