Breakdown of Широкая улица становится тихой вечером.
становиться
to become
улица
the street
тихий
quiet
вечером
in the evening
Questions & Answers about Широкая улица становится тихой вечером.
Why is it широкая улица and not широкий улица or широкая улицу?
- Улица is a feminine noun (it ends in -а and is feminine in meaning too).
- Adjectives must agree with the noun in gender, number, and case.
Here улица is:
- singular
- feminine
- nominative case (it is the subject of the sentence)
So the adjective must also be:
- singular
- feminine
- nominative
The feminine nominative ending of широкий is широкая, so we get широкая улица.
- широкий улица – wrong, because широкий is masculine nominative.
- широкая улицу – wrong, because улицу is accusative, but here we need nominative for the subject.
How do we know that улица is the subject and not the object?