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  1. August 5th, 2007, 09:08 AM #1
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    These endings.

    Why are the endings in green so? What case are they (Accusative apparently) but why?

    Она всю дорогу держала ребёнка на руках.
    Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
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  2. August 5th, 2007, 10:16 AM #2
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    Because it's a time indication? ""During" the whole way"? (=very bad english - Russians, please disregard )

    It's the only reason I can think of......
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  3. August 5th, 2007, 11:25 AM #3
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    Re: These endings.

    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    Why are the endings in green so? What case are they (Accusative apparently) but why?

    Она всю дорогу держала ребёнка на руках.
    Всю дорогу is an accusative.
    Сравни с немецким "dieses Jahr studierte er gut": в этом году - или (весь) этот год - он хорошо учился.

    Весь день я смотрела телевизор.
    Всё лето мы ходили купаться.

    Т.е. на протяжении какого-то отрезка времени. "Всю дорогу" - значит, всё время, пока она шла/ехала.
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.
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  4. August 5th, 2007, 01:50 PM #4
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    Although literally, вся дорога expresses distance, in this context it is a time expression and therefore is in the accusative.

    Remember also, only the subject can be in the nominative case.
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    Hmmm....thanks. Every day there is something new to me about this language.
    Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
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