Russian Instrumental case - functions, forms, творительный падеж в русском 

Большое спасибо! Your lessons are truly excellent!

One of my favorite Russian songs goes like this: Под окном высоким, под окном широким, вишня белоснежная цветёт. Мимо этой вишни, мимо этой хаты, парень бравый в первый раз идёт. The Instrumental case in all its glory. :) Большое спасибо Антония.

Dear teacher Antonia , I'm really thankful of you for your nice job , I'm writing from Kiev, I'm Iranian , I must learn Russian and I prefer Russian here because It is very helpful in 15 countries which had been United in СССР period of time and in addition I love Russian , with kind regards.

Even though this video was made over 5 years ago I have just watched it for the first time and found it to be a fabulous intro to the instrumental case. Thanks very much, Antonia for your dedication and hard work in making these videos. большое спасибо!

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Antonia ))) Thank you so much! This is one long and intense video, but you really covered a lot of material and it was so very understandable! Thank you so much for all the energy you put into this video! Great work! )))

Замечательный падеж ! I began to study it today !

Many thanks for your priceless help.

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After four years, my russian books had gathered enough dust for me to give this mysterious and confusing language a second try. Thanks to these videos, I might actually do it... WITH PASSION. Then I will traverse Russia by train and say "let's get cracking" to every person I meet. But first I will get cracking on this language. Keep up the good work! You give a lot of great explanations, and it sounds a lot like you have a background in linguistics.

Love this lesson! You know how you read about something, watch videos about it, but you don't really get it. And then you see this video, and boom... everything starts making sense. (Except, you might flinch when a virtual punch comes your way :-D). Thank you, Antonia.

Thank you for another great lesson Antonia!

Awesome, amazing job. You had material for both beginning and more advanced students. And so clearly presented. Thank you.

OMG, pure awesomeness!! I love this video, so clear and useful.

I wish I could send everyone studying Russian on Babbel a link to this playlist. I was overwhelmed and confused learning about cases. You do a terrific job explaining all this.

здравствуйте. this video is very helpful to figure out the instrumental case! I was very confused about the only this case before I watched this visible video. всё хорошо в этом уроке. большое спасибо.

Большое спасибо за этот фантастический урок. Талия

so understandable. thank you!

woww😍😍😍 i understood everything in just 1 vedio of yours . большое вам спасиба.

Thank you for the great help 🙏🏻🌹 i appreciate the ten practice sentences very helpful

Your videos are so helpful! Большое спасибо)

Здравствуйте. Творительный падеж в русском. Как интересно. И спасибо вам большое.

Thank you. I study Russian at a community college adult evening class, but your lessons are good practice and reinforcement for me. I like your lists, such as verbs that take the instrumental case- that's how I think.

Как интересно изучения с такой учительницей!! 😎😎😎😎

I have been studying for 2 years now, you have helped me alot studying russian. I want to travel the world!!

вы просто великолепно объясняете , настоящая учительница

thank you Antony I really learned a lot we want more .l like your videos very much

Antonia you are the best . the a lot.

great video, thanks!

Спасибо, вы отлично объяснила!

You are amazinggg thank you

Russian language is so difficult! Antonia , thank you for your lesson !

Thanks a lot ...

Any tips as to how to remember the changes.. i now understand what is meant by instrumental case..thank you.. you are a brilliant teacher

I liked it very much

these are the videos that i recommend the most to anyone in search of learning the Russian language. thank you so much Antonia. it can't be better for a beginning level ))))))))

Finally i found the lesson I was looking for long time.Now i know how to say who was "with" me.

Thank you🎉...

Thanks

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Вы очень красивая и хорошая. Спасибо большое 😊 вы мне очень помогаете ❤️❤️

Мы с друзьям - i and friends Yes this lesson is very useful. It will help in my study of this huge and beautiful language. Thank you.

ты мой лучший учитель русского языка

You just beat me with a huge wave of knowledge 😂👊

Thank you very much for the video. With the last example, number 10, you wrote, She has not been speaking "с своим парнем" Is своим necessary because earlier you mentioned with instrumental case, like with her husband, it was not necessary, like она с мужем .

The way you explain is extraordinary. I learned with you more russian in a week than english in a half year in school. There is stil one thing I do not undersatand in your explanation You always say that one letter is "stress" or not . .Could you explain to me in a few word what that means. Or maybe there is a video to explain that issue becouse whan I hear this exprasion in a sentence I get in the mist and I do not understand rhe rule and when I have to use it.. So when a consonant or a vowel is "stressed"? When a letter is stressed? . Thank you very much for helping me with everything.

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Спасибо, Антония! Вопрос... I notice that you don't pronounce the prepositions ending in as even though they are at the end. Is this because prepositions are always be considered "connected" to the following noun for pronunciation purposes, like "перед музеем" rather than "перет музеем"?

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Also instrumental is used for weather and time of day i think

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Russian WITH passion- instrumental case!

For #2, I said пошли instead of ходили because they were going to a specific place, i.e., to the club - not just wandering about. I always get this wrong, it seems. I get very confused between the use of the verbs идти and ходить. The good news is that I had no difficulty with the instrumental case. (By the way, does the word парень, in Russian, imply boyfriend - as in a romantic relationship - as opposed to a friend who happens to be a boy - non-romantic relationship?) Good lesson!

Great - I found .75 speed while listening useful.

Hello,I have one question, what does it mean stress fall and how I guess If word is stressed,is it rule for this issue?

★ As for the verb Быть [Byt']= to be, it's not used in present- it's usually skipped in Russian present . We do not use any verb in this meaning when we , well, when we mean “to be”. But in the past and in future we use the verb “to be “ which and in this case you are supposed to use the instrumental case after this verb. Examples: -She works as a teacher at a university. Она работает преподавателем в университете . Ona rabotayet prepodavatelem v universitete . -He is interested in arts. Он интересуется искусством . On interesuyetsya iskusstvom . -He will be the next president of our country. Он будет следующим президентом нашей страны . On budet sleduyushchim prezidentom nashey strany . Now we are going to take a look at the forms and after that we'll practice as I have promised. So let's take a look at the rules: The instrumental of singular nouns Nominative singular Remove Add Instrumental masculine брат чай папа -- й а ом ем ой братом чаем папой neuter окно море о е ом ем окном морем feminine ночь вода ь а ью ой ночью водой Explanation of the table: Add -ом to masculine nouns ending in a consonant (брат) and neuter nouns ending in -o (окно). Add -ем to masculine nouns ending in -й, -ь (чай, учитель) and neuter nouns ending in -е (море, орудие). Add -ей to feminine and masculine nouns ending in -я (тётя, дядя). Add -ой to feminine and masculine nouns ending in -a (вода, папа). Add -ью to feminine nouns ending in -ь (ночь). PRACTICE TASK 1. Don’t play with fire, it is dangerous! Не играй с огнё , это опасно! Ne igray s ogno , eto opasno! 2. My friends and I went to the club yesterday and had a lot of fun! Мы с друзьями ходили вчера в клуб и хорошо провели время ! My s druz'yami khodili vchera v klub i khorosho proveli vremya ! 3. Behind the house there is a large playground. За домом находится большая детская площадка. Za domom nakhoditsya bol'shaya detskaya ploshchadka. 4. My friend does sports every day. Мой друг занимается спортом каждый день. Moy drug zanimayetsya sportom kazhdyy den'. 5. My mom drew this picture with a pencil. Моя мама нарисовала эту картинку карандашом. Moya mama narisovala etu kartinku karandashom. 6. Are you interested in modern music? Вы интересуетесь современной музыкой? Vy interesuyetes' sovremennoy muzykoy? 7. I admire your beauty. Я восхищаюсь вашем красотой. YA voskhishchayus' vashem krasotoy. 8. We have a very important task in front of us- to learn Russian! Перед нами стоит очень важная задача - выучить русский язык! Pered nami stoit ochen' vazhnaya zadacha - vyuchit' russkiy yazyk! 9. The cat hid under the sofa. Кошка спряталась под диваном. Koshka spryatalas' pod divanom. 10. She has not been speaking with her boyfriend for two days. Она не разговаривает со своим парнем уже два дня. Ona ne razgovarivayet so svoim parnem uzhe dva dnya.

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Hi!!May I ask you a question...Before "brother, why not "CO" Thanks!!!

I've found a very odd usage of the instrumental case to be in sentences like these: Я - пилот. (I'm a pilot) No instrumental Yet, inexplicably ... Я был пилотом. (I was a pilot.) Я буду пилотом. (I will be a pilot.)

It is the fifth case in the Russian case system and it is used quite often in the Russian language so we need to know it quite well. Hello my dear friends! Welcome to “Russian with passion”. My name is Antonia Romaker and today we are going to talk about the instrumental case in the Russian Language. We have talked already about nominative, genitive, dative ,and accusative cases. So it's high time we talked about the instrumental case and today we get to do it . So let's get cracking ! First of all I will tell you about the functions of this particular case. After that we'll talk about the forms, and at the end you'll have a short exercise to practice. The “instrumental case” is used to talk about the instrument with the help of which an action is performed. For example: -To write with a pen. Писать ручкой. Pisat' ruchkoy. -To go by bus. Ехать автобусом. Yekhat' avtobusom. Most commonly, when we use the instrumental case in English we are supposed to use the following propositions: “by, with, by means of .” In Russian in this case there are no prepositions and this is what's interesting. Usually here we are talking about the means, manner or agent which helps you perform the action. For example: -To cut with a knife. Резать ножом. Rezat' nozhom. -To write with a pencil. Писать карандашом. Pisat' karandashom. -To eat soup with a spoon. Есть суп ложкой . Yest' sup lozhkoy . -To paint with paints Рисовать красками. Risovat' kraskami. -To punch/hit someone with a fist Ударить кулаком. Udarit' kulakom. ★ Also there are several prepositions which are most commonly used with the ‘Instrumental case’ in Russian . Firstly the preposition “C” -usually it's translated as “WITH “ and in this case it means : Accompanied by or Together with . For example: -Coffee with milk. Кофе с молоком. Kofe s molokom. -Borsch with sour cream. Борщ со сметаной. Borshch so smetanoy. ★ There is a rule that if after the preposition “C” [s] there is a word starting with two or more consonants, then you are supposed to use “CO”[so] instead of “C”[s]. -Borsch with sour cream. Борщ со сметаной. Borshch so smetanoy.  Сметанa[sour cream] has two consonants {CM}at the very beginning of the word. That's why we say: Борщ со сметаной. [ Borshch so smetanoy.] ★ Also we use the preposition “C” when we talk about two people who accompany each other- so two people who do something together, in this case in English we say “AND “ . We use the conjunction “AND”. While in Russian we are supposed to use the preposition “C”. For example: Sergey and his wife. Сергей с женой. Sergey s zhenoy. ** In Russian we do not need to say: Сергей с его женой. Sergey s yevo zhenoy. It is already quite clear that it is his wife. -She and her brother. Она с братом. Ona s bratom. Once again we do not say: Она с его братом. Ona s yevo bratom.  We omit the possessive adjectives.

The Instrumental Case The instrumental case is used in the sentences like "Я пользуюсь... машиной, домом, водой" (I make use of ... a car, house, water). The nouns in the instrumental answer such questions as Кем? Чем?. Я восхищаюсь чем? Я восхищаюсь его талантом. - (literally) By what am I admired? I admire his talent. Катя работает кем? Катя работает врачом. - (literally) As who does Katya work? Katya works as a doctor. The instrumental case is called so because it is used to describe the instrument by which and action is performed. For example: забивать гвоздь молотком (to drive in a nail with a hammer), писать ручкой (to write with a pen), ехать автобусом (to go by bus). Using the Instrumental Case The instrumental case is widely used to describe one's job - Я работаю учителем (I work as a teacher), Отец был рабочим (The father was a worker). It is also used in space and time phrases. For example: ехать полем (to go through the field), проснуться утром (to wake up in the morning), вернуться летом (to come back in summer). The instrumental case is used after such prepositions as за (behind), между (between), над (over), перед (in front of), под (under), c (with). For example: за домом behind the house над столом over the table перед рекой in front of the river под водой under water с учителем with the teacher The instrumental can also be used without prepositions. Instrumental Case Endings The instrumental is formed from the nominative singular nouns with the help of the following endings: -ом, -ем, -ой, -ей, -ью (singular); -ами, -ями (plural). The tables below sum up how the instrumental of nouns is formed. The instrumental of singular nouns Nominative singular Remove Add Instrumental masculine брат чай папа -- й а ом ем ой братом чаем папой neuter окно море о е ом ем окном морем feminine ночь вода ь а ью ой ночью водой Explanation of the table: Add -ом to masculine nouns ending in a consonant (брат) and neuter nouns ending in -o (окно). Add -ем to masculine nouns ending in -й, -ь (чай, учитель) and neuter nouns ending in -е (море, орудие). Add -ей to feminine and masculine nouns ending in -я (тётя, дядя). Add -ой to feminine and masculine nouns ending in -a (вода, папа). Add -ью to feminine nouns ending in -ь (ночь). The instrumental of plural nouns Nominative singular Remove Add Instrumental plural masculine мост гость край учитель -- ь й ь ами ями ями ями мостами гостями краями учителями neuter окно море о е ами ями окнами морями feminine коса стая а я ами ями косами стаями Explanation of the table: Add -ами to masculine nouns ending in a consonant, neuter nouns ending in -o and -e and feminine nouns ending in -a. Add -ями to masculine nouns ending in a -ь, neuter nouns ending in -e and feminine nouns ending in -я, -ь. masterrussian.com/

Good day my favorite teacher Antonia Romaker, I follow your videos regularly, I found them very useful. Yet, I have a suggestion or rather a request to make to you. Please Antonia, try to speak in Russian only or, at least, mostly. This helps us to improve our listening and vocabulary in Russian. I have a list of RU-vid teachers who speak only in Russian, or they do not use English but rarely. I can mention teachers like: Anastasia Semina, Ira, Tatiana Klimova, Stanislav Chernyshov, Maria Petrova, Olga Geral, Max, etc. This monolingual method, to teach Russian through Russian itself, helps the learner to improve his knowledge about the language. The bilingual method may help the begginers, but not the intermediate nor the advanced students, for this reason, I suggest that you make videos only, or at least mostly, in Russian.

is there a rule to know where do i have to accent the word?

Can you help me please with something, I kindof understand the cases but I’m collecting tables for them , so you showed us the transformation which happens to singular nouns , what are plural and adjectives?

What does 'Моя голова винтом' mean? I've noticed that it has the instrumental case

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Сделали классное видео. Спасибо вам, я учительница руского ....но не в России.

3:45 will they understand when you leave the ' C ' & ' CO ' out of it? like Kofe molokom? and borshch smetanoy ?

Thanks, Antonia, for this helpful video. But I don't understand one point you made. You said со is used instead of с when the following word starts with 2 consonants. But then you have a phrase Она с братом, and another Мы с друзьями! Why not со in these sentences?

Great!!! but complicate

Can you please explain why Дочь becomes Дочкой instead of Дочью ? Thank you for the lesson.

Please I never get this, why is the В in example 7 of the exercise in capital while being in the middle of the sentence??

I don't understand why you use instrumental case with prepositions which logically entail location. Why would you use instrumental case after the word 'in front of' or 'under' when these words inherently refer to the location of something. Whichever noun that follows these prepositions, how are they're instrumental to anything? They don't describe the means, they don't help the action or anything. Could you clarify? Seems really illogical and thus confusing to me.

hmmmm have you ever made a video exlaining the reflexive verbs?

Table: 9:21

У меня вопрос. So does Сергей и своей жена have a different meaning than Сергей с женой?

Hello! I had been seduced by Dmitri Petrov, but I come back to your channel. Thanks for the new videos!

★ There's one more interesting thing here . If we want to say that you are doing something with somebody else instead of saying : “My mom and I” , you should say: Мы с мамой. My s mamoy. So, well, practically you are saying “We with my mom “. That's how we say it in Russian. We don’t say: My mom and I. Моя мама и я. Moya mama i ya. Usually we say: Мы с мамой. My s mamoy. Literal translation “We with mum “, but practically we mean “My mom and I”. Other examples: My friends and I. Мы с друзьями. My s druz'yami. -My colleagues and I. Мы с коллегами. My s kollegami. -My husband and I. Мы с мужем. My s muzhem. If you want to use the exact phrase “together with” then you can say: Вмecтe c=together with[vmeste s] -I wrote this story together with my sister . Я написалa этот рассказ с сестрой. YA napisala etot rasskaz s sestroy. ★ There are some other prepositions which are used with the instrumental case . Перед =In front of Pered Над = Over Nad За = Behind Za Между =Between Mezhdu Под= Under Pod For example: Between two trees. Между двумя деревьями. Mezhdu dvumya derev'yami Under the table. Под столом. Pad stolom. Behind the house. За домом. Za domom. ★ There is a list of verbs after which you are also supposed to use the instrumental case : Заниматься=to do/to be engaged in activity Zanimat'sya Интересоваться =to be interested in Interesovat'sya Работать =to work as Rabotat' Пользоваться =to use Pol'zovat'sya Становится = to become Stanovitsya Управлять = to manage Upravlyat' Являться = to appear Yavlyat'sya Быть = to be Byt'

we should not use "c" between verb and noun? for example: писать с ручкой.?

Dear Antonia, I,m from Londrina-Brasil.I,m learning with your classes. I have an important doubt and havenot somebody to ask. For this i,m writing you. Sorry my english. In this video about instrumental case in russian, , on the exercises, frase number six is not clear for me. Why the words modern and music are declined both in the instrumental? I understand that we interested in what? music. ok music is instrumental. But why modern is also. Please help me understand this. Thank you for your atention.

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Antonia, in "борщ со сметаной", you pronounce the last word as "сметанИЙ/ЫЙ" rather than "сметанАЙ". I have also heard another native Russian speaker pronounce "етой" like "етИЙ/ЫЙ" rather than "етАЙ". Why is that? Are we not supposed to prononunce the unstressed "o" like "a"? Especially since you pronounce "с братом" like "братАМ" - so here this rule holds. You obviously pronounce these sounds correctly, I just do not understand why sometimes the unstressed "o" does not seem to be articulated as "a". Many thanks for explaining this little point:)

Is this the hardest part of Russian language?

Nowadays, there is a great rush of new vocabulary, I think you should a video on selecting one word n its synonym,it's phrasal verb,it's antonym n its example.fix one day for vocabulary enhancement. How are you n Gleb? Anything special?

I don't understand the Instrumental even with help, but don't worry it's Ночью, it's me.

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Antonia I got scared. You Do boxing also!

This A bit harder than I excepted 😬

Were is plural

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Why isn't it "она сo братом"?

You just keep telling we can use dative,instru ,acusative cases in this that in this that .put a video togethere to explain the difference where exactly normall russian put that because they all seem same for english speakers when you say we can use in this also and that also ...just tell us what normal russian tell

Why do you have several forms for the same gender....

I.M Germany. Du bist sehr schön frau ❤ ich liebe dich ❤

Сколько предлогов в творительный падеже

Почему "она с братом" а не "она со братом?"