ABSTRACT
The accusative case is one of the six Russian cases. In a sentence, the accusative case has several roles. It can be used with or without a preposition. This chapter provides a summary of noun endings in the accusative case and explains its grammatical roles. The accusative case is the only case in which endings are affected by the concept of animate/inanimate nouns. All rules and ending variations applied to the genitive case are valid for the accusative case. The prepositions that can govern the accusative case is summarized along with the context in which the accusative case with a preposition is used. Nouns in all cases, except the nominative case, can describe various movements. As Russian sentences have flexible word order, a noun or pronoun in the accusative case does not always appear immediately after the verb that requires that case. There are idioms where a noun in the accusative case with a preposition is its core element.
