Breakdown of Нам нравится комната номер пятнадцать.
мы
we
комната
room
нравиться
to please / to appeal
номер
number (phone, room)
пятнадцать
fifteen
Questions & Answers about Нам нравится комната номер пятнадцать.
Why is it Нам нравится instead of the regular word for "we"?
The verb нравиться actually means "to be pleasing to." The person who likes something is placed in the dative case, so "we" becomes Нам (to us).
Why is the verb нравится singular if "we" are the ones liking the room?
Because the room (комната) is the grammatical subject of the sentence. Since there is only one room doing the pleasing, the verb takes the singular form нравится. If you liked multiple rooms, it would be plural: нравятся.
Why do we use the counting number пятнадцать here instead of the word for "fifteenth"?
When identifying things like rooms, buses, or buildings with the word номер, Russian simply uses regular cardinal numbers. It is an exact match for how we say "number fifteen" in English.
The word for five is пять. Why is there no soft sign in the middle of пятнадцать?
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