На соседней улице открылась новая пекарня.

A new bakery has opened on the neighboring street.

Breakdown of На соседней улице открылась новая пекарня.

• новый: new
• на: on
• улица: the street
• пекарня: the bakery

Questions & Answers about На соседней улице открылась новая пекарня.

Why do we say на соседней улице and not в соседней улице?

In Russian, some places take на and others take в, and you mostly just have to memorize which.

• You normally say на улице (on the street), на площади (in the square), на станции (at the station), на заводе (at the factory), etc.
• You say в доме (in the house), в городе (in the city), в парке (in the park), etc.

So на соседней улице is the standard set phrase: literally on the neighboring street.
В соседней улице sounds wrong to native speakers.

What case is соседней улице, and why is it used here?

Соседней улице is in the prepositional case, singular, feminine.

The pattern is:

• Preposition на
  • prepositional case (for location)
    → на улице, на соседней улице

We use the prepositional case after на when we talk about where something is (location, not movement).
So the new bakery is located on the neighboring street → на соседней улице.

Why does соседней end in -ей, but улице ends in -е?