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- "I love dogs."
"I love dogs."
Translation:Kocham psy.
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That doesn't increase my confusion. I already speak Russian and I understand why the genitive is required in negative constructions. What's confusing me is that the accusative does not merge with the genitive in cases like "Kocham psy," which uses a noun that I consider "animate", whereas the accusative is the same as the genitive for inanimate nouns like "tomato."
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You wouldn't use the genitive form for tomatoes either.
Polish distinguishes between masculine inanimate (A=N), masculine animate non-personal (A=G in singular, A=N in plural) and masculine personal (A=G). Pies belongs to the second category.
In plural there are only two genders: masculine personal and "everything else" (sometimes inaccurately referred to as "masculine" and "feminine"). If it is masculine but not a person, it belongs to the latter, even if it is animated. Anyway, nouns of this gender have identical nominative and accusative cases (and vocative, too).