Word
Соседний дом очень старый.
Meaning
The neighbouring house is very old.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Соседний дом очень старый.
Since our current lesson is about the genitive plural, how would we change соседний and старый to match that case?
To describe multiple houses in the genitive case (like saying 'of the old neighboring houses'), соседний changes to соседних and старый changes to старых. Notice how the soft adjective соседний takes -их, while the hard adjective старый takes -ых. The noun itself would become домов.
Both соседний and старый describe a masculine singular noun. Why do their endings look different (-ий vs -ый)?
Старый is a regular 'hard' adjective, which means it takes the standard hard ending -ый. Соседний, however, is a 'soft' adjective. Its stem naturally ends in a soft consonant sound, so it must take the soft ending -ий. You will see this soft pattern in a few other common adjectives like синий (dark blue) and последний (last).
Where is the word for 'is' in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb 'to be' is almost always skipped. You just put the subject and its description next to each other. So, Соседний дом очень старый literally translates as 'Neighboring house very old'.