Breakdown of Ежедневный план помогает мне спокойно учиться.
мне
me
спокойно
calmly
помогать
to help
план
the plan
Questions & Answers about Ежедневный план помогает мне спокойно учиться.
What does ежедневный план literally mean, and can I say план на каждый день instead?
Ежедневный план literally means “daily plan” (a plan that is for every day).
You can also say план на каждый день (“a plan for each day / for every day”). The difference is small:
- ежедневный план – more compact, sounds a bit more formal or “bookish”
- план на каждый день – a little more spoken/neutral, slightly longer
Both are correct in this sentence and mean almost the same thing.
Why is план in this form and not плана or плану?
План is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the sentence — the thing that does the action:
- Ежедневный план (subject)
помогает (verb)
мне (indirect object)
спокойно учиться (what it helps me to do).
Forms like плана, плану, etc. are other cases (genitive, dative, etc.) and would be used if план had another function in the sentence (object, possession, etc.), which it doesn’t here.
Why is it помогает мне and not помогает меня?