Word
Вечером волонтёр пишет пост о животных зоопарка и просит людей не бросать мусор.
Meaning
In the evening the volunteer writes a post about the animals in the zoo and asks people not to throw trash.
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Breakdown of Вечером волонтёр пишет пост о животных зоопарка и просит людей не бросать мусор.
писать
to write
и
and
не
not
человек
the person
Questions & Answers about Вечером волонтёр пишет пост о животных зоопарка и просит людей не бросать мусор.
Why is вечером used without any preposition? Why not в вечером?
Certain time expressions in Russian use the instrumental case without a preposition to mean “in the X / at X time”:
- утром – in the morning
- днём – in / during the day
- вечером – in the evening
- ночью – at night
So вечером is the instrumental form of вечер, and here it functions like an adverb: вечером = in the evening. You must not say в вечером in this meaning; that would be incorrect.
If you want a more specific time, you can use в + accusative:
- в этот вечер – on this evening
- в пятницу вечером – on Friday evening
What aspect and tense is пишет? Does it mean “writes” or “is writing”?