Quote Originally Posted by Helenej View Post
Can you explain or rephrase your expression "to do the oddities", please? To except the oddities?
What I was referring to was the fact that for a native speaker of English, the use of "у" can be disconcerting. For instance in English we say "I have...", and in Russian you say "at me is...". It's odd for us to learn, but we have to just memorize it and understand how it is used when speaking Russian. It may be the same with the instrumental case here...it seems odd, but it's just the way it is, and has to be accepted that way.