Nominative case: diversity of endings

Have you never plagued the case? There was no case that in the notebooks of your son or daughter, "shot" in red in many places, the case endings were corrected ? Rare people who have an innate sense of language and a linguistic flair do not stumble upon declension by nouns, especially in school childhood.

With the help of variability by case, the noun is put in the necessary form, with which other words that call the object, attribute or action are consistent. This property allows nouns within the grammatical rules of the language to combine with other nouns, as well as with adjectives and verbs, creating phrases and sentences. The nominative case is the first of the six, the initial form of nouns, which name faces, objects, phenomena, etc. To the names of animate objects one can ask the question: "who?". To the inanimate nouns in this case, one can ask the question: "What?"

The nominative case is a grammatical case form inherent in the subject-producer of the action or the carrier of the state, the sign in the syntactic construction. The name of the subject is an independent grammatical form, that is, from it the question is posed to the dependent word of the word combination that is included in the sentence.

The nominative case is usually used correctly. There are errors associated with its use instead of the form of the instrumental or genitive cases. For example, sometimes they say: "There's no need to go with three hundred dollars," instead of "There's nothing to go with three hundred dollars." Or: "It is necessary to overcome more than five hundred kilometers" instead of "It is necessary to overcome more than five hundred kilometers".

The nominative case of singular words in Russian grammar is indicative of the absence of an ending, or rather, the presence of the so-called zero ending in many nouns belonging to the masculine gender, for example: poplar, finger, table. And in feminine nouns and denoting the names or kinship of the words of the masculine gender, endings -a, -ya, for example: feminine-girl, winter, lid, masculine-Vova, uncle, Kolya, papa.

The nominative plural of these nouns gets the ending -и, -ы, for example: girls, winters, lids, uncles, dads. Although the plural of masculine nouns can also receive endings -a, -ya, for example: a teacher, a professor. The nominative plural of the plural is also formed with an additional sound at the base and ending with -y, for example: leaf - leaves, son - sons (a separating soft sign appears on the letter ). It happens that the ending of the plural joins a truncated basis, for example: Christian - Christians.

The range of syntactic functions of the nominative case is limited by the fact that it is not controlled by the verb and is not combined with prepositions. In order to correctly form case forms, even the simplest ones, you need to be a native speaker and know the rules of word formation.