Why is dative case used in the following for example:
месяцы в году
игры на снегу
There is no sentence, so how can there be an indirect object..
asked Jan 23, 2013 at 0:23
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Dasblinkenlight is absolutely right: it is not dative it is locative case. But even if it was dative (f.e. раздача всем) it is acceptable as a title of article - it is a sentence which consists of subject (подлежащее) with dependent words only, without predicate (сказуемое).– farfareastCommented Jan 23, 2013 at 15:50
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See this question for more details.– OlgaCommented Feb 25, 2013 at 20:12
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Although the word forms match dative letter-for-letter, the stress falls on another syllable, giving you a hint that something fishy is going on. Indeed, this is not dative: it is locative, one of a lesser-known cases of Russian nouns. According to Wikipedia, approximately 150 masculine nouns retain a distinct form for the locative case, used only after "в" and "на". These forms end in "-у́" or "-ю́" :
Лежать на снегу.
Стоять на краю.
answered Jan 23, 2013 at 3:11
