Breakdown of Гид рассказывает нам интересную легенду о древнем замке.
мы
we
интересный
interesting
о
about (о, об, обо)
рассказывать
to tell
гид
guide
легенда
legend
древний
ancient
замок
castle
Questions & Answers about Гид рассказывает нам интересную легенду о древнем замке.
Why use рассказывает instead of говорит here?
Рассказывать means to narrate, recount, or tell a story. You use it for telling jokes, stories, or legends like in this sentence. Говорить just means to speak or to say in a more general sense.
Why is мы (we) changed to нам here?
Нам is the dative case of мы. Verbs of telling, giving, or showing take the dative case for the person receiving the action (the indirect object). The guide is telling the legend to us.
Why do the words for interesting legend end in -ую and -у?
They are in the accusative case because the legend is the direct object (the thing being told). The dictionary form is интересная легенда (feminine). In the accusative case, feminine adjectives ending in -ая change to -ую, and nouns ending in -а change to -у.
What case is древнем замке and why is the spelling a bit unusual?
It is in the prepositional case because it follows the preposition о (about). The masculine adjective древний (ancient) takes the soft ending -ем. The noun замок (castle) takes the standard -е ending, but notice that the -о- drops out of the root, making it замке. This disappearing vowel is very common in Russian nouns.
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