"Я знаю её отца."
Translation:I know her father.
21 Comments
- 25
- 22
- 16
- 15
- 4
- 2
Correct. Because it's an animate noun, so accusative matches genitive rather than nominative.
- 18
- 15
- 12
- 8
- 6
- 4
Does it make sense to also say "Я знаю своё отца"? I'm a bit confused with the proper usage of свой
- 19
- 16
- 13
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 10
- 9
- 9
- 7
- 7
- 6
First, "своё would be the "neuter person". And second, the Russian pronoun “Свой” means “one’s own”. It replaces the normal possessive pronoun when it refers to the subject. Example “Ivan loves his (own) dog (Иван любит свою собаку)”. If you were to use the normal possessive pronoun it would indicate the dog belongs to someone else.
- 11
- 10
- 4
- 3
- 2
Принцесс, драконом заточённых, Возможность есть ещё спасти, А вот заточенных драконом... Прости.
- 13
- 12
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 9
- 9
- 7
- 7
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 2
why does отец go to отца here? does знать then sometimes take the genetive case?
- 15
- 13
- 11
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 3
- 3
Masculine and neuter nouns don't have their own accusative case, they borrow from either the nominative or the genitive depending on if the noun is a living thing or not. If it is, accusative=genitive, if it's not, accusative=nominative.
- 13
- 12
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 9
- 9
- 7
- 7
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 2
ah yes of course! I was completely aware of the rule I just wasn't conciously aware that was what this was. большое спасибо :)
- 17
- 8
- 6
- 3
- 3
It takes accusative (I guess it's a regular rule for modifying verb + direct object of the action with no preposition).
- 17
- 15
- 14
- 13
- 13
- 13
- 12
- 12
- 12
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 11
- 10
- 10
- 9
- 9
- 9
- 9
- 8
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1428
Or, as they say in Scotland, ‘a kent hir faither’ :Þ
It depends on its meaning. Living beings are animate, things are inanimate. For ghosts, puppets, robots and dead people check the usage examples in the dictionary or a corpus..
