Questions & Answers about Из-за ливня мы остались дома и смотрели фильм.
Here из-за means because of or due to.
So Из-за ливня = because of the downpour.
It is a common Russian preposition used to show cause, often with something negative or inconvenient:
- из-за дождя — because of the rain
- из-за пробок — because of the traffic jams
- из-за ошибки — because of the mistake
It is written with a hyphen: из-за.
Because из-за requires the genitive case.
The dictionary form is ливень = downpour.
In the genitive singular, it becomes ливня.
So:
- ливень — nominative
- из-за ливня — genitive after из-за
This is something you will need to memorize with prepositions: many Russian prepositions always require a certain case.