Первый кадр — крупный план.

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Breakdown of Первый кадр — крупный план.

• кадр: the shot; frame
• крупный план: the close-up

Questions & Answers about Первый кадр — крупный план.

Why is there a dash in Первый кадр — крупный план instead of a verb like есть?

In Russian, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

• Первый кадр — крупный план
  literally: The first shot/frame — close-up

means:

• The first shot is a close-up.

The dash is often used in writing when one noun phrase is being identified as another noun phrase. It helps show the link that English expresses with is.

Compare:

• Это мой брат. = This is my brother.
• Мой брат — врач. = My brother is a doctor.

You usually would not say Первый кадр есть крупный план in normal Russian. That sounds unnatural here.

Why is первый spelled this way? What form is it?

Первый is the masculine singular nominative form of the ordinal number/adjective meaning first.

It agrees with кадр, which is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative

So the forms match:

• первый кадр = the first shot/frame

If the noun changed, the form of первый would also change:

• первая сцена = the first scene
• первое видео = the first video
• первые кадры = the first shots/frames

Why are both кадр and план in the nominative case?