Learning how to use the Russian 'K' preposition (VIDEO)
You may need this in many siuations. The most Russian American, Tim Kirby, reveals some of them and explains what case to use in each.
Prepositions are an important part of any language, and in Russian they interact with the cases in a thankfully predictable way
Let’s take the simplest preposition of all and see how it works.
K – means like going towards something, and always takes the Dative case.
- In school they ask the kids to go К доске, as in go up to the chalkboard, доска – доске in the Dative case.
- If you go up to the window to look out that would be “к окну”, окно becomes окну.
- If you ever go to see a specific person this also takes the preposition K…. I need to see the doctor becomes “мне надо к врачу”. врач – врачу.
If we feel emotions towards things… see TOWARDS things just in English we can use K.
- Love towards the motherland – Любовь к родине
- Love for or towards football – Любовь к футболу
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