"Mam grupę dobrych przyjaciół."
Translation:I have a group of good friends.
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Is "dobrych przyjaciół" genitive or accusitive plural? Does the "of" indicate possession, making it genitive? .
Why is 'good friends' in the genitive case here? I thought that the genitive case was used for negative sentences, after certain prepositions and to indicate possession. In this example, what exactly do the 'good friends' possess that puts them into the genitive case?
If anything, then something would have to possess them (okay, sounds like a need for exorcisms) for it to be Genitive.
The answer is "of". If you have 'of', it will (almost?) always be Genitive.
Would "Mam dobrą grupy przyjaciół." be "I have a good group of friends."?
Almost. "dobrą grupy" don't match each other grammatically, "mam" needs Accusative, which will be "dobrą grupę". Just like it's "grupę" in the main answer here.
It does, he just wrote the wrong word, hence why the example used accusative "dobrą grupę" (genitive would be dobrej grupy)
wouldn't this sentence be the same even without the possession ("of")? If we take down the "grupa" from this sentence, wouldn't it still be "Mam dobrych przyjaciól" because of the mascular plural? (assuming there's at least 1 male among the friends?), so Acc=Gen?
Yes, removing "group of" results in "Mam dobrych przyjaciół", and yes, in this case Acc=Gen.
But if they're all women, then it's "Mam grupę dobrych przyjaciółek" vs "Mam dobre przyjaciółki".
