В коридоре ничего не слышно ночью.

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Breakdown of В коридоре ничего не слышно ночью.

• не: not
• ночью: at night
• коридор: the corridor

Questions & Answers about В коридоре ничего не слышно ночью.

Is the nuance closer to “nothing can be heard” or “it’s quiet”?

Both are possible readings. Literally it says that nothing is audible, but in everyday speech ничего не слышно often implies the place is quiet. If you want to stress quietness rather than audibility, you can also say тихо.

Why is there “double negation” with ничего не?

Russian uses negative concord: a negative pronoun like ничего must be paired with не in the verb phrase. You cannot drop не here. So ничего не слышно is the correct, normal pattern.

What exactly is слышно grammatically?

It’s an impersonal predicative word (a “category of state”), meaning “audible.” The sentence has no grammatical subject. You can add a dative to mark who it’s audible to: Мне в коридоре ночью ничего не слышно (“I can’t hear anything…”).

Why в коридоре and not на коридоре?

With enclosed spaces (rooms, halls, corridors), Russian uses в + prepositional to mean “in/inside.” На коридоре is non‑standard in modern Russian; stick with в коридоре.

What case is коридоре and why that ending?