Russian Partitive Genitive

November 18, 2020 | Tags: Russian Genitive case

Did you know that to express “some” in English we normally use the Genitive case? It is sometimes called the partitive genitive. 

For example,

Я хочу воду. I want the water. (The glass of water I have on the table).

Я хочу воды. I want some water.

Я съем фрукты. I will eat the fruit.

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Я поем фруктов. I will eat some fruit.

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