Text · Russian name declension · accusativeA Russian name in the accusative — appoint whom

The «whom» form for orders: appoint, award, assign, approve. Enter the name in the nominative — the other cases are right there.

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Accusative

the question: whom?
The name in the nominative
Gender
Detected automatically: female.
Examples
Other cases and pages
Resultaccusative
Accusative · whom?
Иванову Марию Петровну

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When the accusative is needed

The accusative lives in the operative part of an order: «appoint whom», «award whom», «send whom on a trip», «approve whom». It is easy to confuse with the genitive — for male surnames the forms coincide, for female ones they do not.

Male namemale
Иванов Иван Иванович
Иванова Ивана Ивановича
Female namefemale
Иванова Мария Петровна
Иванову Марию Петровну
With a job titledocuments
главный бухгалтер Иванова Мария Петровна
главного бухгалтера Иванову Марию Петровну
Double surnametwo halves
Петрова-Водкина Ирина Фёдоровна
Петрову-Водкину Ирину Фёдоровну
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Common mistakes

what is most often confused in this case
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назначить Ивановой Марии

The genitive instead of the accusative: «назначить Иванову Марию Петровну».

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премировать Шевченко Ольгу

Surnames in -ко do not decline: the form is correct, «Шевченко» stays as it is.

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назначить Иванова Ивана на должность главный бухгалтер

After «на должность» the title goes into the genitive: «на должность главного бухгалтера».

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Nearby pages

GenitiveQuestion: whose? of whom?DativeQuestion: to whom?InstrumentalQuestion: by whom?PrepositionalQuestion: about whom?Female surnamesQuestion: does it decline or not?

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