Breakdown of В новых журналах пишут об известных актёрах.
журнал
magazine
новый
new
писать
to write
в
in / to (direction)
известный
famous
о
about (о, об, обо)
актёр
actor
Questions & Answers about В новых журналах пишут об известных актёрах.
Why do both nouns (журналах and актёрах) end in -ах?
Because they are in the prepositional plural. The prepositions в (in) and об (about) both require the prepositional case here. For most nouns that end in a hard consonant (like журнал and актёр), the plural prepositional ending is -ах.
What about the adjectives новых and известных? Why do they end in -ых?
Adjectives must match the case and number of the nouns they describe. In the prepositional plural, most adjectives take the ending -ых. If the adjective ended in a spelling rule letter (like к, г, х) or a soft consonant, it would take -их instead.
Why does the sentence use об instead of just о for the word "about"?
The preposition о changes to об when the very next word starts with a vowel sound. Because the adjective известных starts with the vowel и, we use об to make it flow better when speaking, similar to using "an" instead of "a" in English.
There is no word for "they" in the Russian sentence. Why is it just пишут?
In Russian, when talking about a general or unspecified group of people doing something, you can just use the third-person plural verb form (пишут) without the pronoun они (they). It acts like a passive voice and translates perfectly to "They write" or "People write."
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