В воскресенье этот магазин не работает.

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Breakdown of В воскресенье этот магазин не работает.

• не: not
• этот: this
• в: on

Questions & Answers about В воскресенье этот магазин не работает.

Why is it в воскресенье? What case is воскресенье here?

Here в is used in a time expression meaning on, and воскресенье is in the accusative.

The tricky part is that воскресенье is an inanimate neuter singular noun, so its accusative form looks the same as its nominative form. That is why you do not see any change.

Compare:

• в среду = on Wednesday
• в пятницу = on Friday
• в воскресенье = on Sunday

So the case is changing, but with воскресенье the form just happens to stay the same.

Why is воскресенье not capitalized?

In Russian, days of the week are normally written with lowercase letters.

So:

• понедельник
• вторник
• воскресенье

This is different from English, where Sunday and Monday are capitalized. In Russian, you only capitalize them if they begin a sentence or are part of a title.

Why is it этот магазин and not эта магазин or это магазин?