Word
Тихий вечер радует меня.
Meaning
A quiet evening makes me happy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Тихий вечер радует меня.
Why is вечер in the nominative case?
Because вечер is the grammatical subject of the sentence, and in Russian the subject appears in the nominative case.
Why is the adjective тихий not in the neuter form тихое?
Вечер is a masculine noun, so its adjective must agree with it in gender, number, and case. Here we need masculine singular nominative, which is тихий.
Why is меня used instead of мне?
The verb радовать is transitive and takes a direct object in the accusative case. The person who is pleased goes in the accusative (меня). If you used the intransitive радоваться, you’d say мне (dative): Я радуюсь тихому вечеру.
What does радует literally mean, and how is it conjugated?
Радует is the 3rd person singular present tense of радовать (to please, to bring joy to). Conjugation in present tense (singular):
• Я раду́ю
• Ты раду́ешь
• Он/она раду́ет
Why is there no word for “is” in the sentence?
In Russian, the present-tense copula есть (“to be”) is normally omitted, so you simply say Тихий вечер радует меня instead of inserting есть.