Quote Originally Posted by Helenej View Post
About your correction.

“Can a sober-minded person, having beaten up his neighbor even for a bad dead (deal), keep celebrating his victory every year?” Actually I meant deed instead of dead here. Whould this word be appropriate?.
Yes, "deed" would be appropriate in that sentence.

I think the problem of choosing the proper preposition in “to remind of” and ”to be proud of” is very much similar to one of choosing the proper case of a noun after a verb in Russian. I mean your question about using the instrumental instead of the accusative. The answer in both cases is “Just memorize and use this way.” Don’t you think?
I do think sometimes we just have to memorize a way of saying something. But I usually try to change how I think about it so I'm more familiar with the Russian frame of mind.