После ремонта старый чердак превращается в небольшую мастерскую.

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Breakdown of После ремонта старый чердак превращается в небольшую мастерскую.

• после: after
• чердак: the attic
• небольшой: small

Questions & Answers about После ремонта старый чердак превращается в небольшую мастерскую.

Why is ремонта in the genitive case?

Because the preposition после always takes the genitive in Russian.

• после ремонта = after the repair / after the renovation
• Base form: ремонт
• Genitive singular: ремонта

This is a fixed pattern:

• после урока = after the lesson
• после работы = after work
• после дождя = after the rain

So после ремонта is grammatically required.

Why is старый чердак in the nominative case?

Because it is the subject of the sentence — the thing that is undergoing the change.

• старый чердак = the old attic
• It is what turns into something else.

In Russian, the subject is normally in the nominative case.

Here:

• старый is nominative masculine singular
• чердак is nominative masculine singular

So the sentence structure is basically:

After the renovation, the old attic turns into a small workshop.

What does превращается mean exactly?