In the song by Zemfira "Хочешь?", about thirty seconds in she says "Хочешь, сладких апельсинов". As oranges (апельсины) are inanimate nouns, shouldn't they just be put into the regular plural, along with their adjective, making it "Хочешь, сладкие апельсины"? This doesn't make grammatical sense to me, could someone please explain it?
Also, the song is rather good, here is a link to it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvEfHtPht8
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?" ("how about a knuckle sandwich?", "do you want a beating?"). The same with oranges. Only "сладких апельсинов" is possible here. I don't really know how to explain it, but this is what we say.


