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Questions & Answers about Автобусна зупинка повна людей.
What is the grammatical structure of Автобусна зупинка повна людей?
The sentence consists of:
- Автобусна зупинка – a noun phrase in the nominative case (subject).
- повна – a predicate adjective (feminine, nominative singular) whose meaning is “is full.”
- людей – a noun in the genitive plural, showing what the stop is full of.
In English terms it literally reads: “The bus stop (is) full of people.”
Why is людей in the genitive case instead of the nominative люди?
The adjective повний (“full”) governs the genitive to indicate what fills something.
Structure:
- повний ЧОГО? → full of WHAT?
- ЧОГО is always genitive.
Hence повна людей = “full of people.”
How is the adjective автобусна formed from автобус?
- Start with the noun автобус (bus).
- Add the adjectival suffix -н- plus the feminine ending -а, because зупинка is feminine.
Result: автобус-н-а = “bus-related” or “bus-” as in “bus stop.”
Why does повна come after зупинка, and can we say повна автобусна зупинка людей instead?