Плохой закон часто делает жизнь людей сложнее.

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Breakdown of Плохой закон часто делает жизнь людей сложнее.

• человек: the person
• делать: to make
• жизнь: the life

Questions & Answers about Плохой закон часто делает жизнь людей сложнее.

Why is it плохой закон and not плохая / плохое закон?

In Russian, adjectives must agree with the noun in gender, number, and case.

• закон is:
  • masculine
  • singular
  • nominative case (the subject of the sentence)

For a masculine, singular, nominative noun, the adjective плохой is the correct form.

• плохая – feminine singular nominative (e.g. плохая идея – a bad idea)
• плохое – neuter singular nominative (e.g. плохое решение – a bad decision)

So only плохой закон is grammatically correct here.

What grammatical case is закон, and how do I know?

закон is in the nominative singular.

You can tell because:

1. It is the subject of the sentence:

   • Плохой закон (subject) делает (verb) жизнь людей (object) сложнее (complement).

2. The basic dictionary form of a noun is nominative singular, and закон appears exactly in that form:

   • Nom. sg.: закон
   • Other cases would look different (e.g. Gen. закона, Dat. закону, etc.).

So here it’s simply the subject, in nominative.