Questions & Answers about По выходным мама тушит капусту с морковью.
Why is it по выходным and not по выходные?
Because по in this time expression requires the dative case.
- выходные is the base form.
- In по выходным, the noun is in the dative plural.
- This expression means on weekends or at weekends.
This is a very common Russian pattern:
- по утрам = in the mornings
- по вечерам = in the evenings
- по понедельникам = on Mondays
- по выходным = on weekends
So here, по + dative plural expresses something that happens regularly at those times.
Why is мама in that form?
Мама is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.
In this sentence, мама is the person doing the action of cooking, so nominative is exactly what you would expect.
A useful thing to remember is that мама is grammatically a feminine noun, even though it ends in -а like many other feminine nouns.
Why is капусту spelled with -у at the end?
Because капуста is the direct object of the verb тушит, so it goes into the accusative case.