Questions & Answers about Высокий дом стоит на этой улице.
Why is it высокий дом, not something like высокое дом or высокая дом?
In Russian, adjectives agree with the noun in gender, number, and case.
- Дом is:
- masculine
- singular
- nominative (it’s the subject of the sentence)
The standard nominative masculine singular ending for adjectives is -ый / -ий, so:
- masculine: высокий дом
- feminine: высокая улица
- neuter: высокое здание
So высокое дом and высокая дом are ungrammatical because the gender endings don’t match дом (masculine).
What case is дом, and how do I know?
Дом here is in the nominative singular.
Clues:
- It is the subject of the verb стоит (who/what is standing? the house).
- The basic dictionary form of a noun is nominative singular, and дом appears in exactly that form.
- The verb agrees with it in number (singular: стоит, not стоят).
So: subject → nominative → дом.
Why is the verb стоит used here instead of есть or just nothing?