"He thinks you know his brother."
Translation:Он думает, ты знаешь его брата.
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As hinted at by apveay, animate masculine nouns have an accusative form that is identical to the genitive form. However, any adjectives that describe them still have their normal accusative form.
Animate nouns are things that are alive and can move by themselves, e.g. people, animals. Everything else is an inanimate noun, e.g. concepts, plants, cars.
Source: http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_accusative.php
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In Russian, parts of a compound or complex sentence are typically separated by a comma.
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Evidently 'что', introducing a subordinate clause, can be omitted following 'думать'. Can this be done also with other verbs of "thinking"? How about 'считать', 'верить', 'воображать', 'предполагать', 'допускать', 'сомневаться', etc.? Can it be done with any non-"thinking" verbs?