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Can you also say "Я люблю моя мать"? And if so what is the difference?
Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I would say.... Твоя (or твою in accusative case as свою is) is "your" when referencing a feminine noun. Свою is "one's", meaning the speaker's, when referencing a feminine noun. I've seen examples like "Он любит эго жену" and "Он любит свою жену". The first means "He loves his (as in a third party his, someone else's) wife." The second means "Hie loves his (as in his own) wife". {edited to fix typo of хену instread of жену}
Thanks, I know that, and for some reason, repeatedly, when I type it I manage to hit the wrong letters and don't notice it until it is too late. {sigh} But thaks for the correction!!!
Why is it свою and not своя? Or is that just one of the great unanswered mysteries of the universe?
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It's because it's in the accusative case. It is just like how you'd say моя мама in the nominative case (subject) but мою маму in the accusative case (object).
The real mystery would be why мать doesn't become матю in the accusative case (it's just irregular).
Well, it's similar to feminine nouns of the third declension, such as боль where the accusative is also identical to the nominative. That peculiar declension has been like that since Proto-Slavic, evidently.
So Мать and Дочь are feminine nouns whose Accusative forms are the same as their nominatives because they end in -ь.
This doesn't acccept "like". But it probably could/should. There are occasions wehre people tolerate/like their parents, even as an ongoing condition not a temporary state of being, but they wouldn't use the word love.
