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I don't know about Russian but at least Croatian which is also a Slavic language confuses the hell out of me (and I'm German)
Cases are what kill you in Slavic languages. Articles are a breeze though π
Russian has 6 cases. two more than german.
the added ones are instrumental and prepositional.
Technically it's the other way around - the ones German lost in comparison to Russian were the Instrumental and Prepositional (Locative).
This is from the original 8 (or 9) cases in their ancestor, Proto-Indo-European: Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Genitive, Locative, Vocative, (Allative).
Croatian has 7 cases (padeΕΎa), it lost ablative and allative while russian additionally lost vocative.
Which seems like insignificant difference.
It's always interesting seeing which of the daughter languages lose which cases.
Tocharian lost all of the cases but three (Nominative, accusative, and genitive), but then added five more of its own creation! For Tocharian B, these are the perlative, comitative, and (a new) allative, ablative, and locative!
Oooh, that's really specific place
and at least those new ones used fixed suffixes
And rightfully so. I'm also German, I learned Sorbian (slavic minority in Lusatia), and I can very much feel your pain.