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Questions & Answers about Перший урок цікавий.
What part of speech is перший, and what does it mean here?
перший is an ordinal numeral used as an adjective. It means first and describes the position of the noun урок (lesson) in a sequence.
Why do перший and урок both appear in the nominative case?
In Ukrainian, the nominative case is used for the subject of a sentence. Here урок (the lesson) is the subject, and перший agrees with it in case (nominative), number (singular), and gender (masculine).
How does adjective agreement work in Ukrainian?
Ukrainian adjectives (including ordinal numerals like перший) must match the noun they modify in three categories:
- Gender (masculine/feminine/neuter)
- Number (singular/plural)
- Case (nominative, accusative, genitive, etc.)
In Перший урок цікавий:
- урок is masculine, singular, nominative
- перший and цікавий both take the masculine-singular-nominative ending -ий
Why is there no word for “is” (the verb to be) in the sentence?