Breakdown of После дождя воздух становится чище.
становиться
to become
дождь
the rain
после
after
воздух
the air
Questions & Answers about После дождя воздух становится чище.
Why is it дождя and not дождь?
Because после requires the genitive case.
- дождь = nominative singular, the dictionary form
- дождя = genitive singular
So:
- после дождя = after the rain / after rain
This is a fixed grammar pattern:
- после урока = after the lesson
- после работы = after work
- после обеда = after lunch
What case is воздух, and why?
Воздух is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence — the thing that is becoming cleaner.
You can think of the sentence structure like this:
- После дождя = after the rain
- воздух = the air
- становится чище = becomes cleaner
So воздух is the thing doing the action of becoming.
Why is the verb становится used here?
Становится is the 3rd person singular present tense of становиться, which means to become.
Since the subject is воздух (air), which is singular, the verb is singular too: