I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn’t. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one

Oooh it’s like “closet”. Thanks!

Prepositive. They don’t have locative anymore. I believe prep. replaced loc. They also had ablative but I think it was combined with accusative. But I’m not sure about that.

Six real cases, plus some remnants of two more that are no longer used.

The same ones as in German, plus prepositive (typical use is “in” something) and instrumental (typical use is “with” something). They also distinguish between living and non-living, for example, accusative male is the same as nominative male if the subject is non-living (things), but if living (humans and animals) then it is the same as genitive male.

They also love to use genitive for everything. Let’s say you’re counting. One is nominative, two through four is genitive singular, five through twenty and zero is genitive plural. Above twenty the last digit determines the case.

Wanna say a date? Ordinal number in genitive according to the rules above for the day, genitive for the month.

Wanna say x amount of something? The something is genitive. If it is countable, it’s genitive plural, if it’s uncountable, it’s genitive singular. You might think, that’s not so bad, until you discover that Russians consider onions, potatoes, carrots etc as uncountable. Of course you can’t say 5 carrots! Impossible to count them. You must say “5 pieces of carrot” in genitive plural. Duh.

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It’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.

Ha, try the modal verbs! Or Konjunktiv 1. Partizip is also a favourite

That sounds… efficient

In Russian there aren’t any articles, and no concept of definite/indefinite. Hence the cliché accent in English leaving out all of the “the” and “a/an”

You want lto = full and opt-level = s my dude/dudette

It’s called an euphemism treadmill