Каждое утро я просыпаюсь рано.

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Breakdown of Каждое утро я просыпаюсь рано.

• каждый: every
• рано: early
• утро: the morning

Questions & Answers about Каждое утро я просыпаюсь рано.

What case is утро in каждое утро, and why does it look like the nominative?

Утро here is in the accusative neuter singular. Time expressions without prepositions typically take the accusative; neuter accusative forms coincide with the nominative, so утро appears unchanged.

How does каждый agree with different nouns, for example how would you say each day or every week in Russian?

Каждый is an adjective and must match the gender, number, and case of the noun it modifies. Common time-expression forms in the accusative are:

• Каждый день (masculine)
• Каждую неделю (feminine)
• Каждый месяц (masculine)
• Каждые выходные (plural)

Why is there -сь at the end of просыпаюсь, and what is the infinitive form?

The -сь is the reflexive suffix. It turns the verb into просыпаться, meaning “to wake oneself up” (intransitive). Without -сь, просыпать has a different meaning (“to oversleep” or “to spill”).

What is the aspect of просыпаюсь, and how would you express I will wake up early tomorrow in Russian?