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- "Как дела у вашего отца?"
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[deactivated user]
«Дела» is the grammatical subject here, «как» is a predicate ('affairs [are] how?', 'affairs [are] like-what?'). Adding another noun in the nominative case form here makes sentence ungrammatical, since nominative is used for the subject and this sentence already has a grammatical subject.
Joseph_Pate
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Would you ask this if someone's father was in the hospital or had been recently injured? It seems like when ask "How's X doing?" It's usually in this circumstance.