ChristHaunted wrote:Right.
I was under the impression somehow that the Greek really would consist of three words:
willwork not flashlightofyou.
That's where you tripped up. "flashlight" and "you" serve different functions in the sentence and they would be two separate words in two different cases.
Flashlight is nominative because it's the subject;
you is genitive, because it's possessive.
Flashlightofyou is an impossible construction in Greek.
Now,
flashlight is possible to use in the genitive, as in "I'm not going to pay for half of a flashlight!" In Greek,
I would be in the nominative (or implied in the conjugation of the verb),
am going to pay for would be a 1st person singular future active indicative verb,
not would be the negative particle,
half would be the accusative direct object and
of a flashlight would be a noun in the genitive, modifying and limiting
half.
Does this make the cases any clearer?