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

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

(Derailing topics is getting to be a bad habit of mine...)

Believe it or not, it's actually ok. :]

And as long as everything gets answered, who cares?

Originally Posted by OceanEyes

I had another question though.
When it comes to using the Genitive to express amounts and ownership, does it work with abstract subjects?
For example: "11 years of hard work", "2 years of sorrow" or "5 nights of dreamless sleep" "the eyes of the ocean"? (I wonder where that last one came from)

hard work, sorrow, dreamless sleep and ocean would all be in the Genitive correct?