The document discusses the nominative case in Russian grammar. The nominative case is used for the subject of a sentence and for predicate nouns. It introduces the six main cases in Russian: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, prepositional, and instrumental. It provides examples of sentences where the subject is in the nominative case and the predicate noun is also in the nominative case, as it identifies something about the subject.

1. Nominative Case Nominative case is used for the subject of the sentence and for predicate nouns.

2. Cases Russian has a lot of cases: 6

3. Cases Those cases are called:

4. Nominative

5. Accusative

6. Genitive

7. Dative

8. Prepositional

9. Instrumental

10. But...what's a case?!

11. Definition of grammatical case Case: Inflectional category, basically of nouns, which typically marks their role in relation to other parts of the sentence.

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13. But what does that mean?! Well, for Russian that means the endings of nouns can change depending on their relationship to the rest of the sentence.

14. Nominative Case Nominative is the case you find in the dictionary. It's the default case. Don't change anything if the word is in the nominative case.

15. Nominative Case You use the nominative for two types of nouns: the subject of the sentence and the predicate.

16. Ivan the Terrible is a murderer.

17. Ivan the Terrible is a murderer. “Ivan the Terrible” is the subject of the sentence, because he's the one doing the murdering...

18. Ivan the Terrible is a murderer. ...and “murderer” is the predicate.

19. But...what's a predicate?!

20. Definition of predicate Predicate: A part of a clause or sentence traditionally seen as representing what is said of, or predicated of, the subject.

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22. Ivan the Terrible is a murderer. So “murderer” is the predicate, because it's said of the subject, which is Ivan the Terrible.

23. So in Russian...