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[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

I'm unclear as to when I should use certain cases.  This is my current understanding:


Accusative is used when you're talking about something/direct object, such as:

я хочу собаку
я вижу его


Genitive is used when you're talking about ownership, such as:

это его книгы
Is ownership (with special modifiers or more?) also applied to "зовут"? -- Её зовут _____.


And how does Dative apply to age if it's purpose is to explain an indirect object? I'm not making the corellation, sorry.

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[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Technically, in "в лесу", лес is in the locative case, not prepositional.

Prepositional - Я думаю о лесе.
Locative - Я стою в лесу.

Same for words like снег, мост, порт, etc.

[oryx_and_crake]

They did not teach us about locative case at school, therefore it does not exist.
:-)

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Боже мой!

What about the vocative case? ;-)

[oryx_and_crake]

Never!!!