Russian Nominative Case — The Subject Case

The nominative case (имени́тельный паде́ж) is the dictionary form of every Russian noun. It marks the subject of a sentence — the doer of the action — and is also used after the verb "to be" in the present tense (which is usually omitted in Russian).

Nominative endings follow gender: masculine nouns typically end in a consonant (стол, дом), feminine nouns in -а / -я (кни́га, неде́ля), and neuter nouns in -о / -е (окно́, мо́ре). Plural nouns generally end in -ы / -и for masculine and feminine, and -а / -я for neuter. Adjectives in the nominative agree with their noun in gender and number: но́вый стол, но́вая кни́га, но́вое окно́, но́вые столы́.

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