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"Глубина реки — около десяти метров."
Translation:The depth of the river is about ten meters.
January 31, 2016
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Yes, that's about it. Около десяти метров, примерно десять метров and приблизительно десять метров are all possible phrasings (theoretically speaking). The last one nicely maps onto a more formal "approximately 10 m". Even the number of letters in "приблизительно" and "approximately" is about the same.
The preposition около requires genitive case (this is why десять is also in genitive).
Additionally, numbers themselves affect the nouns they describe. Один километр (nominative singular), два/три/четыре километра (genitive singular), пять/шесть/семь/восемь/девять/десять километров (genitive plural).
An example where you'd use accusative singular with kilometer might be to say that you walked one kilometer (я прошел один километр пешком).