Breakdown of В хороших отзывах туристы рассказывают о красивых местах.
красивый
beautiful
место
place, seat
хороший
good
в
in / to (direction)
Questions & Answers about В хороших отзывах туристы рассказывают о красивых местах.
Why does хороших end in -их while красивых ends in -ых, if they are both in the prepositional plural?
It is because of the 7-letter spelling rule. You cannot write the letter ы after ш (or ж, ч, щ, к, г, х). Because the stem of хороший ends in ш, the standard prepositional plural ending -ых changes to -их. The word красивый ends in в, so it takes the normal -ых.
Do masculine words like отзыв and neuter words like место use the exact same endings in the prepositional plural?
Yes, they do! One of the nice things about the prepositional plural is that it does not care about gender. Masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns all use -ах for hard stems (like отзывах and местах) and -ях for soft stems.
Both в and о are used with the prepositional case in this sentence. Why do they need the same case?
The prepositional case has a few specific jobs. The preposition в takes the prepositional case when indicating a location or medium (where something is happening, like inside the reviews). The preposition о (about) always takes the prepositional case when expressing the topic of a conversation or thought.
What is the difference between рассказывают and говорят, and why is the first one used here?