Questions & Answers about Буряк лежить біля часнику.
Because the preposition біля requires the genitive case.
- Dictionary form: часник
- After біля: часнику
So біля часнику means near the garlic. The ending -у is a common genitive singular ending for masculine nouns.
Буряк is in the nominative singular. It is the subject of the sentence — the thing that is doing the action of лежить.
So the basic structure is:
- буряк = subject
- лежить = verb
- біля часнику = location phrase
Лежить is the 3rd person singular present tense of лежати.
That means it matches a singular subject:
- буряк лежить = the beet is lying
- if the subject were plural, you would use лежать:
- буряки лежать = the beets are lying