Questions & Answers about Убери кружки со стола.
What does Убери mean in the sentence Убери кружки со стола?
Убери is the second-person singular imperative of the perfective verb убрать, meaning “to remove,” “to take away” or “to clear off.” In context it tells one person to complete the action of clearing the mugs away.
Why is кружки in that form? Isn’t it nominative plural?
Here кружки is actually accusative plural (the direct object of убери). For inanimate masculine nouns like кружка, nominative and accusative plurals look identical (кружки), so you rely on context to know it’s the object.
What does со mean in со стола, and why isn’t it just с?
The preposition с means “off” or “from (a surface)” and requires the genitive case. Before certain consonant clusters (like ст in стола) с becomes со to make pronunciation easier. Meaning doesn’t change.
Why is стола in the genitive case?
When you use с/со to indicate movement or removal from something, the noun that follows must be in the genitive. The genitive singular of стол is стола, so со стола means “off the table.”