No. 798 in Russian
мама
Mother.
In a sentence
Моя мама готовит вкусный обед.
My mom is cooking a delicious lunch.
Here, 'мама' is used as the subject of the sentence, indicating the main actor performing the action of cooking.
Я передал письмо маме.
I handed the letter to mom.
In this sentence, 'мама' is in the dative case ('маме'), indicating the indirect object whom the letter was given to.
Вчера я говорил с мамой о школе.
Yesterday I talked to my mom about school.
In this instance, 'мама' takes the instrumental case ('мамой'), which is used after the preposition 'с' to indicate with whom the subject was speaking.
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