Questions & Answers about Наш район новый.
Why is there no word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb "to be" (am, is, are) is almost always left out. You just put the subject (наш район) and the adjective describing it (новый) right next to each other.
Why do we use наш and новый instead of наша and новая?
Adjectives and words like "our" must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because район ends in a consonant, it is a masculine noun. Therefore, we use the masculine forms наш and новый.
The current lesson is about the prepositional case for locations. Why isn't район in the prepositional case here?
We only use the prepositional case when we are talking about being in or at a location (for example, в районе means "in the district"). Here, the district is simply the main subject of the sentence being described, so it stays in the nominative (dictionary) case.
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