На вулиці темно.

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Breakdown of На вулиці темно.

• вулиця: the street
• темно: dark

Questions & Answers about На вулиці темно.

What does На вулиці темно literally mean, and how would you translate it into natural English?

Literally, На вулиці means “on the street” and темно means “dark”. As a whole, the sentence is an impersonal statement best rendered in English as:
• “It’s dark outside.”

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Which case is вулиці in, and why?

вулиці is in the locative singular of the feminine noun вулиця (street).
• The locative case in Ukrainian shows location (“where?”).
• After the preposition на (on), we use the locative to say “on/at” a place: на + locative → на вулиці (at/on the street).

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What part of speech is темно, and why isn’t it темний or темна?

темно is the short-form neuter singular of the adjective темний. In impersonal sentences expressing general states (weather, time of day, feelings), Ukrainian uses:
• No grammatical subject
• A predicate in neuter form
Thus темно functions like an adverbial predicate: “(It is) dark.”

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Why is there no pronoun for “it” as in English