Мне нравится, когда обязанности понятны с первого дня и график известен заранее.

Because Russian uses a different structure for to like.

• Мне нравится ... literally means something like To me, ... is pleasing.
• So мне is the dative case of я.
• In Russian, the thing that is liked becomes the grammatical subject, not the person.

Compare:

• Я люблю кофе. = I love coffee.
• Мне нравится кофе. = I like coffee.

So in this sentence, мне нравится means I like it when...

Because нравится agrees with the main idea that follows as a single situation: when the duties are clear from the first day and the schedule is known in advance.

Russian often uses нравится in the singular with a whole clause:

• Мне нравится, когда... = I like it when...

If you were talking about multiple specific things directly, you would use нравятся:

• Мне нравятся обязанности и график. = I like the duties and the schedule.

But here the speaker likes the situation, not just two separate nouns.

Here когда means when and introduces a clause:

• Мне нравится, когда ... = I like it when ...

So the structure is:

• main clause: Мне нравится
• subordinate clause: когда обязанности понятны ... и график известен ...

This is a very common Russian pattern.

Examples:

• Мне нравится, когда люди говорят честно. = I like it when people speak honestly.
• Мне нравится, когда всё ясно. = I like it when everything is clear.

Because Russian normally puts a comma before a subordinate clause.

So in:

• Мне нравится, когда обязанности понятны...

the comma separates:

• the main clause: Мне нравится
• the dependent clause: когда обязанности понятны...

This is standard Russian punctuation.

Because понятны is the short form of the adjective понятный.

Russian often uses short-form adjectives to express a state or condition, especially in statements like is clear, is known, is ready, etc.

So:

• обязанности понятны = the duties are clear
• понятные обязанности = clear duties

The difference is:

• понятные обязанности describes the noun directly before it
• обязанности понятны says something about the duties as a complete statement

This sentence uses the short form because it is making a statement: the duties are clear.

Because it agrees with обязанности, which is plural.

• обязанность = duty, responsibility
• обязанности = duties, responsibilities

Short-form adjectives must agree in number, and sometimes gender, with the noun:

• график известен — masculine singular
• работа готова — feminine singular
• условия понятны — plural

So понятны is plural because обязанности is plural.

For the same reason as понятны: известен is the short-form adjective, used in a statement meaning is known.

• известный график = a well-known/famous schedule or a known schedule as a description
• график известен = the schedule is known

In this sentence, the speaker is not describing the schedule as a type of schedule. They are saying that the schedule is already known, so the short form is the natural choice.

Because график is a masculine singular noun, and the short-form adjective agrees with it.

• график = masculine singular
• therefore: известен

Compare:

• расписание известно — schedule/timetable is known (расписание is neuter)
• дата известна — the date is known (дата is feminine)
• условия известны — the conditions are known (plural)

After с in the meaning from, Russian uses the genitive case.

So:

• первый день = first day
• с первого дня = from the first day

Here:

• первого is genitive masculine/neuter singular
• дня is genitive singular of день

This phrase means from day one or starting from the first day.

Because первого must agree with дня, which is genitive singular masculine.

The basic form is:

• первый день = first day

But after с meaning from, it changes to genitive:

• с первого дня

So both words shift:

• первый → первого
• день → дня

Заранее means in advance, ahead of time, or beforehand.

So:

• график известен заранее = the schedule is known in advance

It suggests that the person knows the schedule before starting work or before the relevant time comes.

Similar examples:

• Сообщите мне заранее. = Tell me in advance.
• Мы всё обсудили заранее. = We discussed everything beforehand.

Yes, often it could.

• график often means schedule, especially a work schedule, shift pattern, timetable of working hours
• расписание also means schedule/timetable, but it often sounds broader and is very common for classes, transport, events, etc.

In a job context, график is very natural:

• график работы = work schedule

So график известен заранее sounds very appropriate here.

Because in Russian, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So Russian says:

• обязанности понятны literally: duties clear
• график известен literally: schedule known

But in English, we must say:

• the duties are clear
• the schedule is known

This is completely normal in Russian.

Not completely. Russian word order is flexible, but this version sounds natural and neutral.

Current sentence:

• Мне нравится, когда обязанности понятны с первого дня и график известен заранее.

This order presents the ideas clearly:

1. I like it
2. when
3. the duties are clear from day one
4. and the schedule is known in advance

You could rearrange parts for emphasis, but the original is smooth and standard.

For example:

• Мне нравится, когда с первого дня понятны обязанности и заранее известен график.

This is possible, but slightly more marked and stylistic.

Because they are the subjects inside the когда clause.

In the subordinate clause:

• обязанности понятны
• график известен

the nouns being described are the things that are clear and are known, so they appear in the nominative case.

Even though the whole sentence begins with мне, that only affects the verb нравится structure in the main clause. It does not force the nouns in the subordinate clause to change case.

Yes. It sounds like a general statement of preference, especially in a work or job-related context.

It means something like:

• I like it when responsibilities are clear from the first day and the schedule is known in advance.

So it expresses what the speaker values in general, not necessarily only one single job or one isolated event.

This kind of sentence is very common in applications, interviews, workplace discussions, and descriptions of preferred working conditions.