Breakdown of Женщины работают новыми нитками и иголками.
и
and
женщина
woman
новый
new
работать
to work
иголка
the needle
нитка
the thread
Questions & Answers about Женщины работают новыми нитками и иголками.
Why is there no Russian word for "with" in this sentence?
In Russian, when you use an object as a tool to do something (like working with threads and needles), you just put the nouns for those tools into the Instrumental case without a preposition. You only use the preposition с (with) for accompaniment, like working together with a person.
Why do нитками and иголками end in -ами?
These are the Instrumental plural forms of the feminine nouns нитка (thread) and иголка (needle). Nouns that end in -а in their dictionary form change to -ами in the Instrumental plural.
How does the adjective новыми get its ending?
It is the Instrumental plural form of новый (new). When an adjective describes a plural noun in the Instrumental case, it takes the ending -ыми (or -ими if a spelling rule applies, though none does for this specific word).
Does новыми describe just the threads, or the needles too?
It describes both! Because both нитками and иголками are plural and in the Instrumental case, the single plural adjective новыми placed before them naturally applies to both items in the list.
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