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    Quote Originally Posted by paasikivi
    Sorry I messed up. Plural genitive of "неделя" is "НЕДЕЛЬ". So mainly I wondered why in this case it was plural genitive (instead of accusative) but in

    "я бывал в пяти странах"

    it is in plural prepositional. In both cases there is a numeral.

    And I suppose also in

    "она приехала со своими двадцатью пятью кошками"

    the noun turns into instrumental, not genitive.
    Could you please occasionally correct my stupid errors!
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    paasikivi, I don't know why...
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    Quote Originally Posted by paasikivi
    "я бывал в пяти странах"

    "она приехала со своими двадцатью пятью кошками"
    Btw, that's not in accusative.

    Plural of "страна":

    N. стр́аны
    G. стран
    D. стр́анам
    A. стр́аны
    I. стр́анами
    P. стр́анах

    Я видел пять стран. (But "Я видел разные страны")
    Maybe it works (a rule with a numeral) only in accusative...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля

    Я видел пять стран. (But "Я видел разные страны")
    Maybe it works (a rule with a numeral) only in accusative...


    I was just told that this 2-4 => sg.gen, 5 => pl.gen. rule works with
    - nominative
    - accusative which has the shape of nominative

    For other cases the noun (when preceded by numeral) is in which ever case it is supposed to be and in plural.

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