Коллекционер разглядывает фарфор.

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Breakdown of Коллекционер разглядывает фарфор.

• коллекционер: the collector
• разглядывать: to examine closely

Questions & Answers about Коллекционер разглядывает фарфор.

Why does коллекционер have this form?

Коллекционер is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence — the person doing the action.

Its dictionary form is also коллекционер, so here nothing changes.

• коллекционер = nominative singular
• masculine noun
• means a male collector, or simply collector when gender is not the main point

In this sentence, it answers the question Who is doing the action? → коллекционер.

Why is фарфор not changed? Shouldn’t the object be in the accusative?

Yes — it is in the accusative case, because it is the direct object. But with many Russian nouns, the accusative looks exactly like the nominative.

That is what happens here:

• nominative: фарфор
• accusative: фарфор

This is because фарфор is:

• masculine
• singular
• inanimate

For masculine inanimate singular nouns, the accusative usually has the same form as the nominative.

So even though the word does not visibly change, its role in the sentence is still accusative object.

What form is разглядывает?