No. 4,083 in Russian
одесса
"Одесса" is the Russian name for the city of Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea.
In a sentence
Я собираюсь посетить Одессу этим летом.
I'm going to visit Odessa this summer.
Here, 'Одессу' refers to the city 'Odessa' in the accusative case as the object of the sentence.
Одесса славится красивыми пляжами.
Odessa is famous for its beautiful beaches.
In this sentence, 'Одесса' is the subject and refers to the city as the entity being described.
Небо над Одессой сегодня необычно чистое.
The sky over Odessa is unusually clear today.
'Одессой' is in the instrumental case here, used in the prepositional phrase indicating location in relation to the noun.
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