Breakdown of Наш самолёт обычно вылетает утром.
Questions & Answers about Наш самолёт обычно вылетает утром.
Word by word:
- Наш – possessive pronoun our, masculine, singular, nominative; it agrees with самолёт in gender, number, and case.
- самолёт – noun plane / airplane, masculine, inanimate, singular, nominative; this is the subject.
- обычно – adverb usually; it modifies the verb вылетает.
- вылетает – verb takes off / departs (by plane), 3rd person singular present, imperfective aspect, from вылетать.
- утром – instrumental case of утро (morning), used adverbially to mean in the morning (time expression).
So grammatically it is:
[our] [plane] [usually] [takes off] [in-the-morning].
In Russian, possessive pronouns agree with the noun they modify in gender, number, and case.
- самолёт is masculine (он, not она or оно).
- The masculine nominative form of наш is наш.
- наша is feminine nominative and would be used with feminine nouns like наша машина (our car).
So:
- наш самолёт – correct (masculine noun)
- наша самолёт – incorrect (gender mismatch)