Questions & Answers about В корзине лежит зелёный огурец.
Why is it в корзине and not в корзина?
In Russian, many prepositions require a specific case.
The preposition в (in) is used with:
- Prepositional case to show location (where something is)
- Accusative case to show direction (where something is going)
Here we describe a location (the cucumber is in the basket, not moving into it), so we use the prepositional case.
- Dictionary form (nominative): корзина (a basket)
- Prepositional singular: (в) корзине
So в корзине literally means “in (the) basket,” with корзине in the prepositional case to agree with в in the meaning “in/inside (somewhere).”
What case is корзине, and how is it formed?