why genetive case here
Джона Мальнеса из Австралии три раза переезжали автомобили
This is one sentence from my textbook, I'd like to know why Джон Мальнес is in genetive?

Thanks for your attentions

Question

why genetive case here
Джона Мальнеса из Австралии три раза переезжали автомобили
This is one sentence from my textbook, I'd like to know why Джон Мальнес is in genetive?

Thanks for your attentions

Answer

You can rewrite the sentence to understand this.
(что?) Автомобили (что делали?) переезжали (кого?) Джона Мальнеса (откуда?) из Австралии (сколько раз?) три раза. 
Автомобили is the subject.
Джона Мальнеса is the object here.

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Thanks a lot
:)

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Iris told you everything correctly and I would like to add that Джона Мальнеса  is not genetive case. It is accusativa case, and the object of a direct action is pretty much always in the accusative.

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