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Утром я открыла шторы и увидела, что во дворе идёт снег.
Meaning
In the morning I opened the curtains and saw that it was snowing in the yard.
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Breakdown of Утром я открыла шторы и увидела, что во дворе идёт снег.
я
I
снег
the snow
открыть
to open
и
and
Questions & Answers about Утром я открыла шторы и увидела, что во дворе идёт снег.
Why is it утром and not утро or в утро?
Утром is the instrumental singular form of утро.
In Russian, some time expressions are commonly used in the instrumental case to mean during / in that part of the day:
- утром = in the morning
- днём = in the daytime
- вечером = in the evening
So Утром here simply means in the morning.
Using в утро would not sound natural in this everyday meaning.
Why do открыла and увидела end in -ла?
Because the speaker/narrator is female.
In the Russian past tense, verbs agree with the subject in gender and number:
- masculine: открыл, увидел
- feminine: открыла, увидела
- plural: открыли, увидели
So я открыла and я увидела tell you that я refers to a woman or girl.
A useful thing to remember: Russian past tense does not show person the way present tense does. The form tells you gender/number, not I / you / he.
Why are открыла and увидела in the past, but идёт is in the present?