Word
Вечером я выключаю телевизор и читаю книгу.
Meaning
In the evening I turn off the TV and read a book.
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Questions & Answers about Вечером я выключаю телевизор и читаю книгу.
Why does вечер become вечером here, and what exactly does вечером mean grammatically?
Вечером is the instrumental case of вечер (evening).
In this sentence it doesn’t really mean with the evening; in modern Russian the instrumental is often used to express time when something happens, so вечером means in the evening.
This is a set pattern for parts of the day:
- утро → утром = in the morning
- день → днём = in/at daytime
- вечер → вечером = in the evening
- ночь → ночью = at night
So Вечером я… literally is In the evening I…
Another related form you’ll often see is по вечерам = in the evenings / in the evenings generally, emphasizing repeated action over many evenings, while вечером can be either today’s evening or a general evening context, depending on context.
Why do we use выключаю instead of выключу in this sentence?