Editing Accusative case (section)

== Russian ==
In [[Russian language|Russian]], accusative is used not only to display the direct object of an action, but also to indicate the destination or goal of motion. It is also used with some prepositions. The prepositions {{lang|ru|в}} and {{lang|ru|на}} can both take accusative in situations where they are indicating the goal of a motion.

In the [[Grammatical gender|masculine]], Russian also distinguishes between [[animacy|animate and inanimate]] nouns with regard to the accusative; only the animates carry a [[marker (linguistics)|marker]] in this case.

The PIE accusative case has nearly eroded in Russian, merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions. Only singular first-declension nouns (ending in '{{lang|ru|а}}', '{{lang|ru|я}}', or '{{lang|ru|ия}}') have a distinct accusative ('{{lang|ru|у}}', '{{lang|ru|ю}}', or '{{lang|ru|ию}}').