Word
Финансовый отчёт, написанный вчера, готов.
Meaning
The financial report written yesterday is ready.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Финансовый отчёт, написанный вчера, готов.
вчера
yesterday
готов
ready
отчёт
the report
финансовый
financial
Questions & Answers about Финансовый отчёт, написанный вчера, готов.
What is the grammatical role of финансовый отчёт in this sentence, and why is it in the nominative case?
Финансовый отчёт is the subject of the sentence.
The basic structure is:
- Финансовый отчёт … готов. → The financial report … is ready.
In Russian, the subject is in the nominative case, so отчёт is nominative singular masculine, and финансовый agrees with it in gender, number, and case. Everything else in the sentence either describes this subject (написанный вчера) or says something about its state (готов).
What exactly is написанный? Is it a verb, an adjective, or something else?
Написанный is a past passive participle formed from the perfective verb написать (to write, to have written).
- написать → написанный = (having been) written
Grammatically, participles behave like adjectives: they agree in gender, number, and case with the noun they modify. So написанный describes отчёт and must be masculine, singular, nominative: написанный отчёт = the report (that was) written.
Why is the phrase написанный вчера set off by commas: Финансовый отчёт, написанный вчера, готов?