Thread: A few questions about the genitive case... ?

Originally Posted by OceanEyes

BUT У меня есть бирюзовой машины is "By me, there is a turquoise car"? (What is owned here is in the Genitive, unlike кошка in the first instance. Why?) Does it have anything to do with using У?

I have never heard anyone saying "бирюзовая машина" in Russia. Folks mostly say "машина цвета морской волны" (literally color of sea wave). If this is turquoise color.

Бирюзовое платье (turquoise dress), бирюзовый ковёр (turquoise carpet)...

A most common way of saying is: У меня машина цвета морской волны. = I have a turquoise car.