Russian Grammar - The Acclamative of Inanimate Nouns

In Russian, the accusative of animate nouns that are either masculine singular or masculine feminine or neuter plural coincides with the genitive. The accusative of inanimate nouns, in the same case, is coincides with the non-nomative. So when you're talking about, you know, the brother lifts the crane, it's brat, brat putty, my grand. But when the brats is in the accusative case, it goes to gender,. It doesn't behave like the lesser animate object. Right? "This is exactly a point where grammatical gender is still being pushed around by semantic animacy and agency"