Шумная улица находится рядом с моим домом.

the house

Breakdown of Шумная улица находится рядом с моим домом.

• мой: my
• с: with
• улица: the street

Questions & Answers about Шумная улица находится рядом с моим домом.

What is the role of улица and why is it in the nominative case?

улица (street) is the grammatical subject of the sentence. In Russian, the subject normally takes the nominative case, so улица appears in its base (nominative) form.

What part of speech is шумная and why does it end in -ая?

шумная is an adjective modifying улица. It ends in -ая because adjectives must agree with feminine singular nouns in the nominative case—here both gender (feminine), number (singular) and case (nominative) match.

What does находится mean and what is its infinitive form?

находится is the 3rd-person singular present tense of the reflexive verb находиться, meaning “to be located” or “to lie (in a place).” The infinitive is находиться.

Why do we use the phrase рядом с and what case does it require?

рядом с means “next to” or “near.” This two-word preposition always takes the instrumental case for the noun that follows (because Russian uses instrumental after с when expressing proximity).

Why are мой and дом in the instrumental case as моим домом?

Because the preposition in triggers the instrumental. The possessive pronoun (my) changes to and the noun (house) changes to to reflect masculine singular instrumental.