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Questions & Answers about Офис закрыт.
Why is there no word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the verb "to be" (am, is, are) is almost always skipped in the present tense. So, офис закрыт literally translates to "office closed".
Since this lesson is about locations, why aren't we using the prepositional case like в офисе (in the office)?
Because we aren't saying that something is located inside the office. Here, the office itself is the main subject of the sentence. When a noun is the subject, it stays in its basic dictionary form (the nominative case), which is офис.
Why is the word for "closed" закрыт and not a longer adjective like закрытый?
Закрыт is a "short-form" adjective. In Russian, when you want to state that a subject is in a certain state right now (like being closed, open, or busy), you often use this shorter version. It changes to match the gender of the noun, so because офис is masculine, we use the masculine short form закрыт.