Questions & Answers about Учитель говорит ясно и громко.
How do we form adverbs like ясно and громко?
Many Russian adverbs of manner (words that describe how something is done) are made by taking an adjective and changing its ending to -о. For example, the adjective громкий (loud) becomes the adverb громко (loudly), and ясный (clear) becomes ясно (clearly).
If I wanted to ask how the teacher speaks, how would I use как?
You would use the question word как (how). To ask the question, you would say: Как говорит учитель? (How does the teacher speak?). Our sentence is the perfect answer to that question!
Why does the verb говорит end in -ит here?
Говорит comes from the verb говорить (to speak). Because учитель (the teacher) is a "he" or "she" in the third person, we must use the matching verb ending. For this specific group of verbs, the "he/she" ending is -ит.
Why do the adverbs ясно and громко sound like they end in an "a" instead of an "o"?
In Russian, the letter о is only pronounced like a clear "o" when the spoken stress falls on it. In both ясно and громко, the stress is on the first syllable. When the final -о is unstressed, it is pronounced as a softer "a" or "uh" sound.