Talk:Russian/Appendix/Tables of declension

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[edit] Talk from Russian/Declensions

The six cases are listed as: N (nominative), G (genitive), D (dative), A (accusative), I (instrumental), and L (prepositional). Why isn’t prepositional listed as P? --Tdkehoe, 00:32, 9 December 2005

Please sign your comments. Aside from that, I do think the page should be better organized. Right now it's pretty much unreadable. What about declension charts with all the simple examples, then a separate appendix with exceptions? I've seen a few wiki-style charts like this floating around the Internet, but can't find them lately. --Aciel 16:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
L would stand for Locational, but Prepositional is the preferred term. --DesultoryMurmurs 19:20, 01 January 2007


I think it would be better to organize the page by cases and not by declensions; it tends to be both easier and more useful to have all the declensions in one place. I would also think it might be better to put declensions by what original endings go to which; although it can be useful to see first, second, third declension, in practice I think it's easier to see what kinds of words they are (what they end in) right there. Maybe this page could use first, second, third, whereas the lessons would use endings. Thoughts? Also, has this not been edited in that many years? Akonas (talk) 01:28, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Russian/Declensions now redirects here

The module that was merged here is now a redirect, because I feel that the history of the module should be preserved, given that this module is a derivative of that one. It had previously been marked as a speedy deletion candidate. --Kernigh 01:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order of the cases

As I've seen, the American way to order the cases is

Nominative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Instrumental
Prepositional

Yet I've always been taught

Nominative
Genitive
Dative
Accusative
Instrumental
Prepositional

Within this wikibook, the ordering is also incongruous, switching from first order to the second. Perhaps we should standardize and choose one order?

I agree, moreover it is confusing if the prepositional is indicated by L at times (locative I suppose?)

Iarlagab 00:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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