"I love my planet"

[slashmel.livejournal.com]

Today at work, a girl was wearing a t-shirt with the same phrase written in several languages. I usually pay no attention to my coworkers, but I noticed Russian characters on the tee and decided to take a closer look.

"Я люблю мою планету" was painted on the fabric and I was sure there was something about it: Is it планета? So, I checked on my books when I got home and I found мой, моя and моë but never мою. Does it really exist? In which cases is it used?

It's such a dumb question I know, but it just intrigued me...

Comments

[nale.livejournal.com]

It does exist, it's all right. :-)

Мою is Accusative for моя.

[slashmel.livejournal.com]

What about планету and планета? I've seen both...

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

планету is the accusative (feminine) of планета. It's in agreement with мою (accusative of моя).

[slashmel.livejournal.com]

Ok, ok... It makes sense now. Told you, dumb questions. Thanks for the clarification.

[nale.livejournal.com]

In addition to what Dermfitz just said:

Nominative: моя планета
Genitive: моей планеты
Dative: моей планете
Accusative: мою планету
Instrumental: моей планетой
Prepositional (or is it Ablativus? Never studied 'Russian as a foreign language'): о моей планете

[slashmel.livejournal.com]

Uhm, I really need to learn the difference between all those. Once again, thanks and your addition is more than welcome. :D

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

It's prepositional... I've only found Ablative in Latin, and that seems to be a sort of mixture of instrumental and prepositional.

[nale.livejournal.com]

Ah - prepositional, then. Thank you! :-)

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

Also sometimes known as the "locative".

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

You do! It's pretty impossible to understand Russian without a good knowledge of the case system, I've found. Get the rote learning out the way, then it suddenly opens up to you.

[michellio.livejournal.com]

That was my biggest problem too. Ha ha, I say was, but let's be real. It still is. It's just something we don't have to deal with in English at all ... but don't worry, it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it =)))))

[vladon.livejournal.com]

моя планета

я люблю [что?] мою планету


accusative.

моя планета - я люблю мою планету

но:
мой дом - я люблю мой дом
моё село - я люблю моё село

[slashmel.livejournal.com]

Yes, so far (not that I've tried really hard), the case system has been the toughest to learn....