(14-09-2019, 02:22 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote="Anton" pid='30822' dateline='1568462503']Out of curiosity, if I'm addressing someone directly in Russian, what case do I use for their name?
You use nominative. There has been vocative once, but it began to fade away some 1000 years ago, and almost disappeared from common speech some 500 years ago. With the Soviet language reform of 1918, it was formally obsoleted. It is traced in several archaicisms though.

