Questions tagged [творительный-падеж]
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Is the instrumental case used for comparatives?
I'm watching the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights with Russian subtitles.
In the scene where Bond first spots the main female character, he says, in English:
"Sniper. Two floors up, center window."
In the Russian subtitles, this has been…
olejhar
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(A changing?) difference between nominative and instrumental case usage in predicates with быть
I would like to know more about the distinction between the use of the instrumental (творительный) and nominative (именительный) case in the context of a predicate (сказуемое) parts of sentences in combination with the (linking?) verb быть.
As far…
Damiaan Reijnaers
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Unexpected use of the instrumental case
In the following Russian sentence, why is "весёлым человеком" in the instrumental?
Его отец был весёлым человеком.
mherzl
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Use of the nominative versus the instrumental to convey permanent state
In "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar", Wade states that in the past tense, the nominative case is used to indicate a permanent state, e.g.
"По профессии он был ботаник"
"By profession he was a botanist."
. . .while the instrumental case is chiefly…
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