Questions & Answers about Это интересная комедия.
Why use Это instead of the feminine Эта if комедия is feminine?
When saying 'This is a [noun]', Russian always uses the fixed word Это, no matter the noun's gender. You would only use the feminine Эта if you were saying 'This comedy' as a single phrase, like in Эта комедия интересная (This comedy is interesting).
Why does интересная end in -ая?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. комедия is a feminine noun because it ends in -я, so the adjective takes the standard feminine ending -ая.
We are learning the Accusative case for destinations right now. Why is this sentence in the Nominative case?
The Accusative case is used for the object of an action or a destination you are moving towards. This sentence simply states what something is ('This is...'), which always requires the basic Nominative (dictionary) case because there is no action happening to the comedy.
How would I use our new grammar to say 'I am going to an interesting comedy'?
You would say Я иду на интересную комедию. The noun changes its -я ending to -ю, and the adjective changes its -ая to -ую to show the Accusative case for a destination. We use the preposition на because a comedy is an event, not an enclosed physical building.
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