Breakdown of На кухне снова не работает вытяжка, поэтому после жарки пахнет во всей квартире.
не
not
квартира
the apartment
на
in
работать
to work
Questions & Answers about На кухне снова не работает вытяжка, поэтому после жарки пахнет во всей квартире.
Why is it на кухне and not в кухне for in the kitchen?
In Russian, на кухне is the normal idiomatic way to say in the kitchen.
Even though English uses in, Russian often uses на with certain places where English would not. Кухня is one of those common exceptions in everyday speech.
- на кухне = in the kitchen
- на почте = at the post office
- на заводе = at the factory
You may sometimes see or hear в кухне, but it is much less common and can sound unusual in ordinary conversation.
Also notice the form кухне: after на for location, кухня goes into the prepositional case:
- кухня → на кухне
What exactly does вытяжка mean here?
Вытяжка here means a kitchen hood, extractor hood, or ventilation hood above the stove.
It is a feminine noun:
- nominative: вытяжка
- genitive: вытяжки
- prepositional: о вытяжке
In this sentence, вытяжка is the subject:
- вытяжка не работает = the hood is not working
Depending on context, вытяжка can also refer more generally to an exhaust system or ventilation extractor.
Why does Russian say не работает for a machine? Why not a verb meaning is broken?