Breakdown of Вечернее молчание на кухне бывает таким приятным, когда все просто пьют чай.
пить
to drink
приятный
pleasant
когда
when
чай
the tea
Questions & Answers about Вечернее молчание на кухне бывает таким приятным, когда все просто пьют чай.
In вечернее молчание, why is the adjective вечернее and not вечерний?
Молчание is a neuter noun (it ends in -e and its dictionary form is молчание, neuter).
Russian adjectives must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun they modify.
- Neuter, nominative singular adjective ending: -ее / -ое
- Masculine, nominative singular: -ый / -ий
Since молчание is neuter, the correct form is вечернее молчание, not вечерний молчание.
What case are вечернее молчание and кухне in, and why?
- Вечернее молчание is in the nominative case. It is the subject of the sentence: the evening silence (does something / is something).
- Кухне is in the prepositional case after the preposition на: на кухне = in the kitchen / on the kitchen (space).
So structurally:
- Subject: вечернее молчание (nominative)
- Location: на кухне (prepositional after на)
Why do we say на кухне and not в кухне? What is the difference between на and в here?