Accusative

Usually accusative (object of the action) appears in nominative form (no declension for masculine and neuter):

Ja buduje veliky most / Я будује великы мoст (I build a large bridge)
Ja jedam zelene jablko / Я једам зелене яблко (I eat a green apple)

Female nouns get suffix -u instead of -a:

Ja kupuje bluzku / Я купује блузку (I buy a blouse)
Ona nosi moju novu suknju / Oнa нoси мoю нoву сукню (She wears my new dress)

Masculine animate (alive) nouns get suffix -a:

Ja imam muža / Я имaм mužа (I have a husband)
Ja ne imam muža / Я не имaм mužа (I don't have a husband)

Also adjective suffixes must be altered. To form an accusative use suffixes appended to both adjective and to noun. Suffixes are different for gender.
Example of alive words: muž (M), syn (M), žena (F)
Example of unalive words: kviet (M), grupa (F):

Ja znam tvojego(ogo) dobrego(ogo) muža (I know your good husband) M (alive) Accusative
Ty vidiš moju novu ženu (Thou see my new wife) F (alive) Accusative

The same rule applies to given names:

Ja znam Roberta, Annu, Jana, Barbaru, Martina.

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are also subject to accusative:

Ja imam/znam mene (me), tebe (thou), jego/go (him), ju (her), to (it), nas (us), vas (you), ih (them).

Я имaм/знaм мене (me), тебе (thou), єгo/гo (him), ю (her), тo (it), нaс (us), вaс (you), их (them).

Inanimate Nouns

Unalive (inanimate) masculine / neuter nouns are not subject to genitive declension:

Ja imam dobry kviet (I have a good flower) M (unalive)
On vidi černy les (He sees black forest) M (unalive)
My imame naše male drevo (We have our small tree) N

Plural nouns are also not subject to declension:

Vy imate zlate syny* (You have golden sons) M (plural)
Ja už imal tri dobre ženy (I had already three good wifes) F (plural)
Ona zna zelene grupy (She knows green groups) F (unalive)
On tvori svoje velike kraľevstva (He creates his own great kingdoms) N

*Declension of plurar alive masculine nouns may appear in Polish and Slovak as Genitive: Vy imate zlatyh synov which is incorrect in International Slavic.

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