Breakdown of Вот та сумочка, с которой я вчера пришла на работу, и блузка, о которой ты спрашивала.
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Questions & Answers about Вот та сумочка, с которой я вчера пришла на работу, и блузка, о которой ты спрашивала.
Why is it вот та сумочка and not вот эта сумочка?
Та means that, and эта means this.
In this sentence, та suggests that particular handbag — the one already being identified or remembered. The speaker is not just pointing to a random bag, but to a specific one: the one she came to work with yesterday.
Вот adds the sense of here is / there is / look, here’s. So вот та сумочка is something like:
- Here is that handbag
- There’s that handbag
- That’s the handbag
So вот points it out, and та identifies which one it is.
What case are сумочка and блузка in?
Both сумочка and блузка are in the nominative singular.
They are the main nouns in the sentence — the things being presented or pointed out:
- Вот та сумочка
- и блузка
The relative clauses that follow them use declined forms of который, but the main nouns themselves stay in the nominative.
How does которой work in с которой and о которой?