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The prepositional case in Russian is one of the easiest: most nouns simply take -E ending, and you don't have to think about their gender or whether their stems are hard or soft (sometimes linguistic speak sounds cheesy, I know).

However, there is a small group of masculine nouns that take -У in the prepositional case. It happened because a few centuries ago, there was a special case for location - the Locative case, and the ending -У is what's left of it. Later, the locative case merged with the prepositional, and now we have this mess of endings.

Here are 10 most frequent nouns that take -У in the prepositional case:

Год (year) - в году 

Глаз (eye) - в глазу

Лес (forest) - в лесу

Ряд (row) - в ряду

Угол (corner) - на / в углу 

Пол (floor) - на полу

Край (edge) - на краю (also possible на крае)

Сад (garden) - в саду

Снег (snow) - на / в снегу 

Нос (nose)-  на / в носу 

у = o or a. Not u..

(to my Norwegian (language'd) brain at least)

*also known as русский язык

For those without a screen reader that transitions between English and Japanese so easily (or sight readers who can’t read Japanese): the symbols are Japanese Katakana. Each symbol represents a phonetic syllable. The entire post is just making puns with that, except for the first post, which is just OP being upset that [shi] and [tsu] look so similar.

This isn’t really a plain language transcription, but more of…a sort of translation?

im still pissed off about [shi] and [tsu].

I don’t [shi] wha[tsu] bad about this?

im going to stab you in the face

[so][n] of a—

There’s really [no] need to get [so] worked up over something as mi[n]or as this!

[wa]t the [fu]ck is going on

this is my worst nightmare.