Breakdown of Эта сделка принесла нам хорошую прибыль в две тысячи пятнадцатом году.
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
хороший
good
год
year
две
two (f)
нам
to us
в
on / during (a time period)
принести
to bring (perfective)
тысяча
thousand
пятнадцатый
fifteenth
сделка
the deal (f)
прибыль
the profit (f)
Questions & Answers about Эта сделка принесла нам хорошую прибыль в две тысячи пятнадцатом году.
Why does the word for "year" change to году instead of the usual Prepositional ending -е?
The word год (year) is one of a special group of masculine nouns that take an irregular -у ending in the Prepositional case when used with the prepositions в or на. So, "in the year" is always в ... году.
Why didn't the words две тысячи change their endings for the Prepositional case?
When you say a year in Russian, it acts like a compound ordinal number (literally "the two thousand fifteenth year"). In Russian compound ordinal numbers, only the very last word changes its case. That's why две тысячи stays in the Nominative form, and only пятнадцатом takes the Prepositional case ending.
How do we know that прибыль (profit) is feminine here?
You can tell by looking at the adjective хорошую. It has the feminine Accusative ending -ую, showing that it's modifying a feminine noun. Nouns ending in a soft sign (-ь) can be either masculine or feminine, so seeing the adjective helps you remember that прибыль is feminine.
What verb is принесла and why is it in this form?
It is the past tense feminine form of the perfective verb принести (to bring). It ends in -ла to agree with the feminine subject сделка (deal). We use the perfective aspect here because the deal successfully completed the action of bringing the profit.
Why is the pronoun нам used here?
Нам is the Dative case of мы (we). The verb принести (to bring) takes the Dative case for the receiver of the action, because the deal brought a profit "to us".
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