Из/од/до and the rest: са, за, о
Ten minutes on the topic's other two pieces: из, од and до all take the genitive-shaped ending already met as the 5+ count form, са takes -ом and swaps for с before most words, and за reuses accusative while о reuses the location -у ending. Build sentences with a restaurant and a church before choosing and translating your way through the rest.
The part of the grammar page this lesson drills — read it here, then use it.
Из, од, до - the from family
Из (out of/from), од (from/since) and до (to/until) all take the same genitive-shaped ending numbers-a1 already introduced as the 5+ count form: masculine/neuter сто → стола-type ending, feminine -а → -е.
Долазим из Београда. (I'm coming from Belgrade), Идем од куће до школе. (I'm going from home to school) - Београда, куће and школе are all genitive-shaped, not nominative.
Special cases
Са (with) takes yet another ending, -ом, on the noun that follows: путујем са сестром (I'm traveling with my sister). The short variant с is used before most words, but са replaces it before words starting with с/з/ш/ж/ц/ч (to avoid an awkward consonant cluster) and always before the pronoun мном (me): са мном, never с мном.
За, in the sense of for - direction or purpose - reuses the accusative pattern from the motion section above; за has other senses with a different case pattern, covered in a later lesson. О (about) reuses the same location endings as у - -у for masculine/neuter, -и for feminine -а nouns: причамо о Београду (we're talking about Belgrade) looks exactly like живим у Београду (I live in Belgrade).
| Preposition | Example | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| iz | iz Beograda | from/out of Belgrade |
| od | od kuće | from home |
| do | do škole | until/to school |