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- "Я люблю своего мужа."
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Свой behaves like мой, твой, ваш and наш. It acts as an adjectival modifier: муж is masculine and is in Accusative. The modifier follows.
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Hi, may you know this two?: - How to know when to use свой или своего? - How do we know when свой means "my" or "his", and so on?
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свой refers back to the subject of the sentence. If the subject is "I" then свой means "my", if the subject is "he" then свой means "his" and so on.
свой and своего are equivalent to мой and моего (or твой and твоего). So свой is the normal masculine form, and своего is the genitive masculine form, and also the accusative masculine form when the object is animate.
The question remains unanswered. According to http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/pronouns.php, at "Reflexive possessive pronoun 'Свой,'" the table shows masculine Accusative Case (animate) as Свой or Своего.
The choice of the form depends on the animacy of the noun. Муж is an animate noun, so its Accusative reuses the Genitive form. Свой just follows.
- it is consonant-ending masculine nouns that exhibit this behaviour. In the plural the rule applies to all nouns.
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In your link, the table is trying to say that своего is animate and свой is inanimate, although it's a little ambiguous the way they've put it.
I have no idea why so many people downgraded your comment. You are 100% correct.
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Technically мужа is still accusative, although it shares the same form as the genitive.
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Your question is how свой differs from мой (these are nominative). Свой is "one's" and Мой is "my." We don't use "one's" in (American) English much because... well... one doesn't talk like that. One's vocabulary doesn't utilize it a lot. (Works like that.)
You also asked whether своего or моего (the Accusative or Genitive forms) could be used. Keep in mind the Tips & Notes from the "Family" section:
Unlike English, Russians rarely say "my mother", "my grandfather"; usually they omit "my".
...And when they don't, it is more natural to use reflexive "свой" (one's own).
In response to another user on this same thread, своего is not "us."
(Edited because for some reason, something I did with formatting gutted a couple of paragraphs.)
And is свойl used with Ты as well: "Ты любишь своего мужа"? Or would I have to use Твоего?
Свой is "oneself's" for whatever the grammatical subject is (it also supports some functional subjects).
How would it be "i love her husband" or "i love your husband"? Can i use "своего" in these cases, or it need to be related to the person in the sentence (in this case me) for using it in this form making it mandatory to use "ваш" for example just for making it clear?
Those sentences would use «её мужа» and «твоего/вашего мужа» respectively. Свой refers to the subject of the clause.
Люблю is usually translated "love" with people and "like" with everything else.
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Я люблю свою жену. Жена and its modifier both follow the feminine pattern of changing ending for accusative.
No matter what i do it still makes me feel like the person who is loved belongs to somebody else :)
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So possessives match the possessee. The reason it's мужа and not just муж is because the word is masculine and animate, so the accusative form is the same as the genitive (мужа) instead of the nominative (муж).
The same is then true for the possessive. So if we're using a form of мой, then мой is the nominative form and моего is the genitive form, so the accusative form is also моего and we get моего мужа. мой мужа is incorrect for these reasons.
It refers to the subject of the sentence (or the clause it is in).
Here, "I" is the subject, so the English translation uses "my" (English does not have a possessive that means "oneself's")
oh ok. So when I is the subject it means my, when she is the subject it means her and when he is the subject it means his?
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When I is the subject it means my (own), when she is the subject it means her (own), and when he is the subject it means his (own).
Not absolutely wrong (and it's an accepted answer) but своего is certainly more natural. If the subject was она, it would be wrong to use её instead of своего as that would imply that she loves another woman's husband.
I believe я люблю своего мужа both means I love his husband and I love my husband.
No, it only means that you love your own husband. Свой is a reflexive pronoun that refers back to the subject of the sentence. You would have to use его if you want to say that you love his husband.
I thought the accusative form of masculine words was the same as the nominative. The а ending really reminds me of a genitive case
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Actually, there's an interesting rule that only applies to masculine nouns. If the noun is animate (i.e. a person or animal), then the accusative form is the same as the genitive. Otherwise the accusative form is the same as the nominative.
That's why мужа matches the genitive case. The same also applies to determiners/adjectives of masculine nouns. That's why in this sentence своего is used instead of свой.
The hints are his her or yours a male is speaking so in that respect it could be any one of those if not please explain why
