Вокруг дома растут деревья.

Around the house trees are growing.

Breakdown of Вокруг дома растут деревья.

• дом: the house
• дерево: the tree
• расти: to grow
• вокруг: around

Questions & Answers about Вокруг дома растут деревья.

Why is it дома and not дом after вокруг?

Because вокруг (around) always requires the genitive case.

• дом = nominative (dictionary form)
• дома = genitive singular of дом

Many Russian prepositions require a specific case. Вокруг is one of those that always takes the genitive:

• вокруг дома – around the house
• вокруг школы – around the school
• вокруг города – around the city

So you must say вокруг дома, never вокруг дом.

Is вокруг always the same as English around?