Breakdown of Нам нужна кровь для девочки после аварии.
мы
we
девочка
girl
нужен
needed (short form)
для
for
после
after
кровь
blood
авария
accident
Questions & Answers about Нам нужна кровь для девочки после аварии.
Why is it Нам нужна instead of 'Мы нужно'?
In Russian, the concept of 'needing' something is flipped. The person who needs something is in the Dative case (нам means 'to us'). The thing that is needed is the grammatical subject, so the word for 'needed' must match its gender. Because кровь (blood) is feminine, we use the feminine form нужна.
How do we know that кровь is a feminine noun?
Why does the word for girl change to девочки here?
The preposition для (for) always requires the Genitive case. To form the Genitive, the dictionary form девочка changes its ending from -а to -и.
Why does the word for accident end in -ии (аварии)?
The preposition после (after) also takes the Genitive case. The dictionary form is авария (accident). For feminine nouns that end in -ия, the Genitive case ending is always -ии.
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