Word
Постер и отпечаток имеют одинаковый размер.
Meaning
The poster and the print are the same size.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Постер и отпечаток имеют одинаковый размер.
и
and
одинаковый
same
размер
the size
иметь
to have; possess
Questions & Answers about Постер и отпечаток имеют одинаковый размер.
Why is the verb имеют plural if постер and отпечаток are both singular?
Because they form a compound subject: Постер и отпечаток = the poster and the print.
In Russian, two singular nouns joined by и normally take a plural verb, so:
- постер и отпечаток имеют
- not постер и отпечаток имеет
So имеют is the correct 3rd person plural form of иметь.
Why is it одинаковый размер and not одинаковые размеры?
Russian is treating size as one shared property.
The idea is not they have same sizes but they have the same size. So Russian uses the singular:
- одинаковый размер = the same size
Also, одинаковый is singular because it agrees with размер, not with постер и отпечаток.
Why does одинаковый stay singular even though there are two things being compared?