Thread: for certain time period

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.

paasikivi, I don't know why...
That's our enigmatic Russian

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...

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.