Привет Explorussians,
I’m writing this article from Saint Petersburg, Russia (Cанкт-Петербург, Петербург, Питер).
I arrived here two days ago and I’m planning to stay for three months. Yes, I’m going to be here for the whole winter and it’s cold. It’s veeery cold. But it’s beautiful. I mean, it’s veeeeeeeeeeery beautiful.
Here, I’ll not be making snowmans. OK, maybe I’ll make a couple. The reason I came here is to make the best videos and resources for you guys.
So, I arrived to Saint Petersburg through Riga with the AirBaltic airlines. I grab the food menu to order a sandwich just to realise that everything is written in both Latvian and Russian. In certain parts of the Baltic countries they still speak Russian.
The food menu was full of examples in the Instrumental Case and I thought I’d do a short video explaining some of those examples. In the end, I didn’t have time to order but hopefully I made something useful for you.
Grab a pen and paper to write down the examples and watch.
Sorry for the bad sound.
Instrumental Case on the plane – The Video
Instrumental Case on the plane – All the examples and Associations
Курица в соусе карри и кокосового молока, подается с рисОМ – Coconut curry with chicken, served with rice
Рис → РисОМ (rice, masculine ending in a consonant)
Гуляш из говядины с овощАМИ и картофелЕМ – Goulash of beef and vegetables with potatoes
Овощи → ОвощАМИ (vegetables, Овощ – masculine ending in a consonant)
Картофель → КартофелЕМ (potatoes, masculine ending in a consonant)
Салат с ростбифОМ, твёрдым сырОМ, картошкОЙ и соусОМ из хрена
Roast beef salad with hard cheese, potatoes and horseradish dressing
Ростбиф → РостбифОМ (roast beef, masculine ending in a consonant)
Твёрдый сыр → ТвёрдЫМ сырОМ (cheese, masculine ending in a consonant)
Картошка → КартошкОЙ (potatoes, feminine ending in -А)
Соус → СоусОМ (sauce, masculine ending in a consonant)
Кекс с кусочкАМИ молочного шоколада – Muffin with pieces of milk chocolate
кусок (piece – masculine) → кусочек (little piece – diminutive form) →
→ кусочки (pieces – plural) → кусочкАМИ (instrumental case)
Вкусный горячий панини с курицЕЙ и сырОМ – Tasty hot panini with chicken and cheese
Курица → КурицЕЙ (chicken)
The rule: If the stem of the noun ends in “ж”, “ц”, “ч”, “ш” or “щ”, replace “а” with “ей”
Cыр → CырОМ (cheese, masculine ending in a consonant)
Сэндвич с лососЕМ по-скандинавски – Scandinavian style salmon sandwich
Лосось → ЛососЕМ (salmon, masculine ending in soft sign -ь) like…
Картофель → КартофелЕМ (potatoes, masculine ending in soft sign -ь)
Круассан с ветчинОЙ, сырОМ и маринованнЫМИ огурцАМИ – Croissant with ham, cheese and pickled cucumbers
Ветчина → ВетчинОЙ (ham, feminine ending in -А)
Cыр → CырОМ (cheese, masculine ending in a consonant)
Маринованные огурцы → МаринованнЫМИ огурцАМИ
Огурцы → ОгурцАМИ like Овощи → ОвощАМИ
Огурец → Огурцы → ОгурцАМИ like Кусочек → Кусочки → КусочкАМИ
Картофельные Чипсы – Оригинальные или со вкусОМ сметаны и лука – Potato chips – Original or with taste of sour cream and onion
Вкус → ВкусОМ (taste, masculine ending in a consonant)
Associate сО вкусОМ (with taste) – cО временЕМ (with time)
Со временЕМ всё у тебя получится. – With time everything will be OK for you.
Masculine noun ending in a consonant – singular
Cыр → CырОМ
Вкус → ВкусОМ
Соус → СоусОМ
Рис → РисОМ
Ростбиф → РостбифОМ
Masculine noun ending in a soft sign – singular
Лосось → ЛососЕМ
Картофель → КартофелЕМ
Feminine noun ending in -A
Ветчина → ВетчинОЙ
Картошка → КартошкОЙ
Masculine noun ending in a consonant – plural
Овощи → ОвощАМИ
Огурцы → ОгурцАМИ
Кусочки → КусочкАМИ
Hey! For more examples in the Instrumental Case, you can watch this video I made using the Russian film The Irony of Fate.
See you later,
Angelos
Very good examples, I am gonna give the link to this articles to those who misunderstand this case