Breakdown of Сколько шоколада дома?
дома
at home
сколько
how much / how long / as much / as many as
шоколад
chocolate
Questions & Answers about Сколько шоколада дома?
Why does the word for chocolate end in -а (шоколада) here?
Because it comes directly after сколько (how much). Words indicating quantity, like сколько, много (a lot), and мало (a little), force the noun that follows into the Genitive case. Since шоколад is a masculine noun ending in a consonant, we add -а to make it Genitive.
How do I know if сколько means "how much" or "how many"?
Сколько covers both! You can usually tell which one makes sense based on what you are asking about. Chocolate is treated as an uncountable mass here, so we translate it as "how much". If you were asking about individual countable items, like apples, it would translate to "how many".
Wait, doesn't дома mean "houses"?
Not in this context! While дома can be the plural of дом (house), here it is used as a set word meaning "at home". When you want to say someone or something is currently located at your house, you just use the word дома to answer the question "where?".
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
Russian almost always drops the verb "to be" (am, is, are) in the present tense. Instead of saying "How much chocolate is at home?", Russian literally just says "How much chocolate at home?".
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