Всем привет) I have read a previous post about the use of нету and it's meaning. In this opportunity I would like to know which is the case that the adjacent subject must have. For example, how would you say: "There is no dog." Which case would you use?
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1Note that what is adjacent ('dog') is not the subject in such Russian sentences with нет/нету, they are impersonal sentences and have no subjects. And also, remember, there's absolutely no need to ask about the case of the subject, in Russian it is always Nominative.– Yellow SkyCommented Dec 21, 2014 at 12:56
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Oh you're right, my mistake. In this case I should have asked for the object's case.– Alvaro GonzalezCommented Dec 22, 2014 at 0:29
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Hehe, no, it's not an object either. It's the predicative.– Yellow SkyCommented Dec 22, 2014 at 12:10
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Also please keep in mind, that нету is informal. The grammatically right variant is to use нет: «Нет собаки.» (There is no dog)– Steve ReichbachCommented Dec 4, 2015 at 12:45
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Genitive: нету собаки; same as нет (in the "there is no" sense) and ни. The colloquial (and getting normative acceptance) tendency to drop the negative genitive in favour of accusative doesn't apply here; that only happens to objects of transitive verbs.
answered Dec 19, 2014 at 5:13