Мне совсем не скучно дома.

I am not bored at home at all.

Breakdown of Мне совсем не скучно дома.

• я: I
• дома: at home
• не: not
• скучно: bored

Questions & Answers about Мне совсем не скучно дома.

Why is it мне and not я at the beginning of the sentence?

Russian often uses an impersonal construction to talk about feelings and states:

• Мне скучно. – I am bored. (literally: To me it is boring.)

In these sentences, the person is not the grammatical subject. Instead:

• The feeling/state (скучно, холодно, жарко, страшно, грустно, весело, etc.) is what “exists”.
• The person is marked in the dative case: мне, тебе, ему, ей, нам, вам, им.

So мне is dative, meaning “to me”, and it is the normal way to say “I am … (bored, cold, sad, etc.)” in Russian with these words. Using я here (Я скучно дома) would be incorrect.

What exactly is скучно here – an adjective, an adverb, something else?