Breakdown of Уверенный докладчик спокойно отвечает на вопросы после лекции.
на
on
отвечать
to answer
вопрос
the question
спокойно
calmly
Questions & Answers about Уверенный докладчик спокойно отвечает на вопросы после лекции.
Why is докладчик in the nominative, and how do I know it’s the subject?
Докладчик is in the nominative case (dictionary form), which typically marks the subject in Russian. In this sentence, the verb отвечает (answers) agrees with a singular 3rd‑person subject, so докладчик is the one doing the answering.
What does уверенный mean grammatically here—what form is it, and why?
Уверенный is a long-form adjective in masculine singular nominative, agreeing with докладчик (masculine singular nominative).
- уверенный докладчик = a confident speaker/lecturer
Russian adjectives must match the noun in gender, number, and case.
Why is на вопросы used—what case is вопросы in, and why?
In отвечать на что? (to answer what? / to respond to what?), Russian uses the preposition на + accusative.
So вопросы is accusative plural here (and for many inanimate masculine nouns, accusative plural = nominative plural in form).
- вопросы (nom pl) = questions
- на вопросы (acc pl) = to the questions / questions (as the object of answering)