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Why not genetive here? I'm honestly getting confused, I was taught that you generally use genetive after negative in russian (i'm a bit biased, since that's how you do it in polish but it was consistent so far) and now I'm encounteting more and more sentences with accusative used. Is there any rule? I've noticed that after любить there is often accusative here.
Genetive is used with нет. With не you use nothing. After любить comes an object. Objects are in accusative.
I believe (based on comments I read recently in another discussion) that the use of genitive case with negation used to be much wider in Russian, but recently the use of accusative case instead has become more common. The use of genitive with negation seems to be restricted now to certain constructions, such as: "у меня нет" + genitive and "здесь нет" + genitive. Hope that helps.
I believe it's not the genitive case because it's the verb "to like" that is being denied, not the noun "beer". I think it could be used in a phrase such as "Я не люблю нет пива" =~ "I don't like any (kind of) beer". I'm not sure if it's right or if it is actually used by Russian speakers, but that's what I think from the lessons.
Genitive is used when speaking of the lack of an ingredient in something else (like when something doesn't have something). Not when something is negative
Let's see how many downvotes I get for this!
I don't drink beer, but I do use it in cooking. A can of beer in home made chili really brings it together.
Okay, so possibly some people on the planet aren't wild about beer, but to echo the post above, why is пиво not пива??
Well, obviously since you don't like the beer you are unable to decline it by cases, but let me enlighten you :P , Pivo is just accusative case for Pivo (accusative for Male Inanimate nouns is usually the same as Nominative):
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Пиво is a neuter word, because it ends with -о. So the accusative ending is -о too.
Beer, vodka, and tequila. I (love) like it all! Yay, my first full sentence in russian! Я мажчина!
Hey :) I've wondered about this before, is there no way to say you like something without saying you love it? In German its quite a stretch to say you LOVE something, so is there a less powerfull word to say you like something? Thx ❣️
I usually see "мне нравится" being used here (To me I like). But I've been taught that Russians use like and love differently in their language. It's not as interchangeable as it is in English. If I'm not mistaken, "я люблю" is typically used with food and with animate objects, whereas "мне нравится" is used for inanimate objects. I hope this helps, please let me know if I'm wrong in any way.
Is there a way to differentiate between like and love here? Can one say in Russian "I like beer, but I don't love it"?
im in my bed right now with duolingo app open and typing "I do not like beer" while the wall in my room is basically made up from can of beers.
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I have never read a statement so false in my entire life. I will not lie about this one. Skipping it
as the friend of a beer wine and spirit sommelier, this physically hurt to type
"I do not like the beer" was not accepted. Is it also a possible translation?
Странно, что подобное высказывание не поподалось в английском курсе для русскоговорящих
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I will always get this one wrong. Can't give in. You'll never make me say, write or even mimic this one :p
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Sooo I just accidentally tricked dou. I pressed the talk button too soon and it cut off what I was supposed to say. So, I quickly pressed the the button to hear the audio again before I spoke as it was recording. Then before I had a chance to repeat what I heard, dou accepted the audio of itself.
