Breakdown of Сколько муки на кухне?
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
кухня
kitchen
сколько
how much / how long / as much / as many as
мука
flour
Questions & Answers about Сколько муки на кухне?
Why does the word for flour change to муки here?
Because it comes right after сколько (how much). Words of quantity like сколько, много (a lot), and мало (a little) require the next noun to be in the Genitive case. Since мука (flour) is a feminine noun ending in -а, we change the -а to -и, giving us муки.
Does сколько mean "how much" or "how many"?
It can mean both! The translation depends on the noun that follows. Because flour (мука) is an uncountable mass noun, сколько translates to "how much" here. If it were followed by a plural, countable noun (like apples or books), it would translate to "how many".
Where is the word for "is"?
In the present tense, Russian almost always drops the verb "to be" (is, am, are). You simply ask "How much flour on the kitchen?" and the "is" is completely understood from context.
Why does it say на кухне instead of в кухне for "in the kitchen"?
Usually, в means "in" and на means "on". However, the word кухня (kitchen) is a traditional exception in Russian. You almost always use на to say someone or something is "in the kitchen". The ending changes from -я to -е because we are talking about a location, which requires the Prepositional case.
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