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    Quick Case Question

    I saw this in some Turganev Literature I was reading

    По возращении в деревню бумистр нас посмотреть веялку.

    I understand the sentence is about a bailiff showing us the winnowing machine,

    But this use of "по + case unknown" is thoroughly confusing me,

    Could anyone shed some light?

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    По возвращении в деревню бурмистр нас посмотреть веялку.

    Doesn't make sense. I assume a verb is missing

    I think it must have been something like that

    По возвращении в деревню бурмистр отправил нас посмотреть веялку

    As for по возвращение it means

    Upon returning or kind of like that
    I do not claim that my opinion is absolutely true.
    If you've spotted any mistake in my English, please, correct it. I want to be aware of any mistakes to efficiently eliminate them before they become a habit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gottimhimmel View Post
    But this use of "по + case unknown" is thoroughly confusing me
    The case is prepositional. По + prepositional case means upon ‹some event›. This case government of the preposition по is almost obsolete. In colloquial speech, it is supplanted now by по + diative (e.g. «по возвращению в деревню»), but the latter is not normative for now.
    Please correct my English

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    большое спасибо тебе обоих

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    In colloquial speech, it is supplanted now by по + dative (e.g. «по возвращению в деревню»),
    Couldn't you also argue that it can be supplanted by после + genitive? (e.g. «после возвращения в деревню», "after returning to the village")

    In any case, here's another familiar example of по + prepositional:

    Цыплят по осени считают!

    Literally, "[They] count the baby chicks after autumn." -- i.e., "Don't count your chickens before they've hatched."

    Here, осени is prepositional sg. and цыплят is animate accusative pl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
    Couldn't you also argue that it can be supplanted by после + genitive? (e.g. «после возвращения в деревню», "after returning to the village").
    Undoubtedly. После + genitive is even more frequent variant.
    Please correct my English

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    Actual quote, with missed verb.
    По возвращении в деревню бурмистр повел нас посмотреть веялку, недавно выписанную им из Москвы
    Бурмистр. Из цикла "Записки охотника". И.С. Тургенев.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gottimhimmel View Post
    большое спасибо тебе обоих
    Большое спасибо вам обоим. (Спасибо requires Dative) And it should be plural (вам, not тебе)

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