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Questions & Answers about Финансовый отчёт готов.
What is the grammatical structure of Финансовый отчёт готов?
It’s a simple present-tense sentence with a noun phrase (Финансовый отчёт) in the nominative case serving as the subject, followed by a predicate expressed by the short-form adjective готов (“(is) ready”).
Why is готов used instead of готовый?
Готов is the short-form adjective used predicatively to indicate a state or condition (“is ready”). The full form готовый is used attributively before a noun (e.g. готовый отчёт meaning “ready report”) and is not used as the predicate in a simple sentence.
Where is the equivalent of the verb “is” in this Russian sentence?
In Russian, the present-tense copula есть (“is/are”) is normally omitted. The predicate link between subject and adjective is understood without an explicit “to be.”
Why is there no article like “the” before “financial report”?
Russian does not have definite or indefinite articles. Context alone conveys whether something is definite or indefinite.
What case, gender, and number are Финансовый and отчёт in?