double prepositional genitive?
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learn_russianDoes this patterns sound good to a native speaker?
У меня у сестры двое детей. = My sister has got two children.
This is the so-called 'double prepositional genitive', the colloquial pattern, whose more literary correspondence is У моей сестры двое детей.
one more example:
У меня у друга украли сумку. (i.e. a bag was stolen from a friend, not from me)
I was told that this construction should be avoided because it sounds 'silly'. Is that true?
У меня у сестры двое детей. = My sister has got two children.
This is the so-called 'double prepositional genitive', the colloquial pattern, whose more literary correspondence is У моей сестры двое детей.
one more example:
У меня у друга украли сумку. (i.e. a bag was stolen from a friend, not from me)
I was told that this construction should be avoided because it sounds 'silly'. Is that true?
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