Questions & Answers about Ночной город очень красивый.
I know the word for "night" is ночь. Why is it ночной here?
Why do the two adjectives in this sentence have different endings (ночной vs красивый)?
Both are masculine adjectives in the nominative (dictionary) case, but their endings depend on where the stress falls. When the ending is stressed, it is -ой (like in ночной). When the stress is earlier in the word, the ending is usually -ый (like in красивый).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb "to be" (am, is, are) is almost always left out. You just put the subject (ночной город) and its description (очень красивый) right next to each other.
If I wanted to say "The city is very beautiful at night", how would that change the sentence?
Instead of using the adjective ночной (night), you would use the time word ночью (at night). The sentence would become: Город очень красивый ночью.
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