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На ангобе появились трещины, оттого что обжиг начали рано.
Meaning
Cracks appeared in the engobe because firing started early.
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Breakdown of На ангобе появились трещины, оттого что обжиг начали рано.
рано
early
появиться
to appear
начинать
to start
на
on/at
Questions & Answers about На ангобе появились трещины, оттого что обжиг начали рано.
Why is it на ангобе? What case is ангобе, and why not в ангобе?
Ангобе is in the prepositional case singular.
Here на means on the surface of, so на ангобе means on the engobe/slip layer. That fits the idea that the cracks appeared on the coating.
- на ангобе = on the engobe
- в ангобе = in the engobe
So if the speaker means the surface layer itself developed cracks, на ангобе is the natural choice.
Why is the sentence появились трещины instead of трещины появились?
Both are possible. Russian word order is much freer than English word order.
- Трещины появились is more neutral if you are simply stating the subject first.
- Появились трещины often presents the cracks as newly appearing information: literally something like there appeared cracks.
So the sentence starts with the event/result, then names what appeared. This is very natural in Russian.
Why is появились plural?
Because the subject is трещины, which is nominative plural.
In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with the subject in number and, in the singular, also gender:
- трещина появилась = a crack appeared
- трещины появились = cracks appeared
So появились matches plural трещины.