Subject · nominative
Who is it? Who acts?
Я студент.
Use the base pronoun.
The person is the subject: I am a student.
Тройка · lessons 1–3
One person.
Three jobs.
Learn when Russian needs я, у меня, or мой / моя—then make the same choices for every person.
About 15 minutes · no account · progress stays in this browser
- 1Recognize subject forms: я, ты, он, она, мы, вы, они.
- 2Build “have” sentences with у меня / у тебя / у него….
- 3Choose мой, моя, моё and the твой family by the noun.
Part 1 · notice the job
Three questions choose the form.
Do not translate one English word at a time. First ask what the pronoun is doing in the Russian sentence.
After у · genitive
Who has something?
У меня есть книга.
Use у + the “у-form.”
Literally “at me there is a book”; naturally, I have a book.
Possessive
Whose noun is it?
Это моя книга.
Put the owner word before the noun.
Моя describes книга: my book.
Change the person
Choose a person and watch all three jobs change together.
Who?
Who has?
Whose book?
See every form together
| Meaning | Subject | After у | Owner word |
|---|
A precise name: “oblique” simply means a non-subject form. Here, the form after у is specifically genitive. In Меня зовут…, меня is accusative—even though it looks the same for я and ты.
Part 2 · build the meaning
The noun controls the ending.
Choose an owner and a thing. The tutorial builds both ways to talk about possession.
Possession lab
Everything here uses people and objects from the first three lesson themes.
1 · Choose the owner 2 · Choose the noun
The “my/your” ending follows the thing owned—not the owner.
A male speaker still says моя книга, because книга is feminine.
A complete “have” sentence
same owner + same noun, different job
An owner word before the noun
masculineмой · твой
feminineмоя · твоя
neuterмоё · твоё
plural · next-lesson previewмои · твои
Part 3 · choose the job
Mixed practice
The three forms are now mixed. Ask “who?”, “who has?”, or “whose?” before you answer.
Part 4 · retrieve from memory
Now produce the form.
Type the answer, or use the Cyrillic word bank. Accents are not required, and е is accepted for ё.
Say the whole sentence aloud after you check it.
Finish · make it stick
You now have a decision system.
Check your result, revisit weak forms, and return for three short reviews.
Your result
— not checked yet
Remember it for longer
Do a two-minute recall before you look at the chart. Three small reviews beat one long reread.
я—меня, ты—тебя
мы—нас, вы—вас
он—него, она—неё, они—них
мы—нас, вы—вас
он—него, она—неё, они—них
The three-question check
- Who is or acts? Use я / ты / он…
- Who has? Use у меня / у тебя / у него…
- Whose noun? Use мой / моя / моё or the matching owner family.
Two details worth remembering
- After a preposition, third-person forms gain н: у него, у неё, у них.
- Мой / твой / наш / ваш match the owned noun. Его / её / их do not change.